Agriculture in Urban Planning: Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

ISBN-13: 9781844076680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 248 str.

Mark Redwood

Opis

Written by a leading expert on urban agriculture, this text examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape.

Spis treści

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Household Food Security Among Urban Farmers in Nairobi, Kenya. 2. Urban Compost: A Socio-Economic and Agronomic Evaluation in Kumasi, Ghana. 3.Urban Agriculture as a Livelihood Strategy in Lima, Peru. 4. The Social and Economic Implications of Urban Agriculture on Food Securityin Harare, Zimbabwe. 5. Urban Agriculture and Food Securityin Lilonwe and Blantyre, Malawi.6. An Analysis of the Quality of Wastewater Used to Irrigate Vegetables in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, Ghana. 7. Water Contamination and its Impact on Vegetable Production inthe Rimac River, Peru. 8. Wastewater Use and Urban Agriculturein Kinhasa, DR Congo. 9. The Health Impacts of Farming on Producers in Rosartio, Argentina. 10. Using Participatory Education and Action Research for Health Risk Reduction amongst FarmersinDakar, Senegal. 11. Complex Ecologies and City Spaces: Social-ecological Networks of Urban Agriculture. 12. Urban Agriculture and Physical Planning: A Case Study of Zaria, Nigeria. 13. Conclusion. Index.

O autorze

Mark Redwood is Programme Leader for Climate Change and Water at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and an expert on urban agriculture.