African Urban Harvest

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Detailinformationen

  • Springer-Verlag GmbH , 09/2010
  • Einband: Gebunden
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-13: 9781441962492
  • Bestell-Nr.: 6871304
  • Umfang: 300 Seiten
  • Sonstiges: 7 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
  • Gewicht: 655 g
  • Maße: 242 x 165 mm
  • Stärke: 30 mm
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.9.2010

Beschreibung

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 urban 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 evidence and practical proposals for technical interventions and policy support based on studies conducted in Eastern and Central Africa, suggesting implications for practice, policy, and further research throughout the developing world.

Klappentext

Over the past two decades, how has urban agriculture changed in sub-Saharan Africa? Is city farming now better integrated into environmental management and city governance? And, looking ahead, how might urban agriculture address the needs of the low-income households and modernizing cities of Africa? In this book, leading specialists in the fields of urban agriculture and urban environment present a unique collection of case studies that examines the growing role of local food production in urban livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Amongst many issues, the authors probe the changing role of urban agriculture, the risks and benefits of crop-livestock systems, and the opportunities for making locally produced food more easily available and more profitable. Concluding chapters reflect on the policy and governance implications of greater integration of urban natural resources and the built environment, an expanded role for urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and the crucial role of women in urban food systems. African Urban Harvest will be of interest to decision-makers, development professionals, researchers, academics, and students and educators in urban planning, development studies, African studies, and environmental studies.

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