African Urban Harvest

Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda

Gordon Prain, Diana Lee-Smith, Nancy Karanja (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2010 | Edition. ed.
Springer (Verlag)
978-1-4419-6962-0 (ISBN)

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How much does urban agriculture help feed and support the billions of people living in the world’s towns and cities? How could it do this better? Crop cultivation and livestock- raising have long histories in urban Africa, as in other areas of the world, but broad awareness among researchers and policy makers of either the history or the contemporary facts of life in African urban development is much more recent. With a majority of the continent’s population expected to be classified as urban in about 20 years, and its urban population spending as much as 80 percent of their household budgets on food, this book seeks to answer the two timely questions above with practical proposals for technical interventions and policy support. Based on evidence from studies conducted in Eastern and Central Africa, it draws out implications for practice, policy, and further research throughout the developing world.

The need to emphasize both technology and policy support for urban agriculture is a consequence of two other histories, of agricultural research on the one hand, and of urban institutions and policy in Africa on the other. With limited exceptions, urban agriculture has until recently been marginalized, ignored or proscribed in these histories. Featuring research undertaken in several cities in Cameroon, Kenya, and Uganda, the authors present an in-depth analysis of urban agriculture, livelihoods and markets; urban ecosystem health; and the kinds of policy and institutional change related to urban agriculture that have been achieved in the three countries through the partnership platforms and stakeholder dialogue established in the participating cities. The book will be useful to the aid community, consultants to, and governments of developing nations, non-governmental organizations involved in development and academic programs and students.

The institutional and regional context.- Urban agriculture in Africa: what has been learned?- Urban farming systems in Yaoundé – building a mosaic.- Crop-livestock integration in the urban farming systems of Yaoundé.- Institutional development of urban agriculture – an ongoing history of Yaoundé.- Changing trends in urban agriculture in Kampala.- Can schools be agents of urban agriculture extension and seed production?- Identifying market opportunities for urban and peri-urban farmers in Kampala.- Health impact assessment of urban agriculture in Kampala.- Recycling nutrients from organic wastes in Kenya’s capital city.- Crop-livestock-waste interactions in Nakuru’s urban agriculture.- Benefits and selected health risks of urban dairy production in Nakuru, Kenya.- Urban agroforestry products in Kisumu, Kenya: a rapid market assessment.- IDRC and its partners in sub-Saharan Africa 2000-2008.- The contribution of research –development partnerships to building urban agriculture policy.

Sprache	englisch
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Afrika; Wirtschaft • Urbane Landwirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4419-6962-4 / 1441969624
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-6962-0 / 9781441969620
Zustand	Neuware