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Author : Charles Michael Shackleton,Margaret Pasquini,Axel W. Drescher
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781844077151
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David Grossman,Leo M. van den Berg,Hyacinth I. Ajaegbu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429778766
Published in 1999, this work sets out to assess the potential of urban and peri-urban agriculture for generating income and for improving food supply for the growing urban population in Africa. It considers both full-time small-holder farmers and part-timers, who hold land under various tenurial conditions. Since the book is a collection of papers based on field studies, it contains a wide range of approaches, methods of investigation, and scientific findings.
Author : Gordon Prain
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441962492
This book seeks to answer the question of how much urban agriculture helps feed and support people living in towns and cities with evidence and proposals based on studies in Eastern and Central Africa.
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309164542
This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.
Author : Axumite G. Egziabher
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552501092
Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.
Author : Mary Oyiela Onyango Abukutsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Agrobiodiversity
ISBN : 9966923314
Author : Karg, H.,Drechsel, Pay
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290908753
Author : R. R. Schippers,Natural Resources Institute (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Indigenous crops
ISBN : 0859545156
Author : Imogen Bellwood-Howard,Volker Häring,Hanna Karg,Regina Roessler,Johannes Schlesinger,Martina Shakya
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908210
The report summarizes key results from surveys carried out on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in 2013. The aim was to provide a broad overview of the state of UPA in the study cities and a basis for future research endeavors. The randomized sampling approach used aerial photography to identify 10 sites in different categories of farm in each city. Farmers provided information on their cropping and livestock-rearing activities. There were similarities between the cities, but the differences in the expression of UPA in Tamale and Ouagadougou were more intriguing, as in farm sizes, crops grown and livestock ownership. Farmers were particularly concerned about diminishing access to land in Tamale, where sales by chiefs to private investors were accelerating. In Ouagadougou, formal reallocation of land to homeowners by the state had similarly decreased available farmland. Water availability was a universal concern, and the quality of water used for irrigation was potentially more questionable in Ouagadougou than in Tamale. The results point to the need for further work on uncontaminated, perennial water sources and soil fertility management, alongside focuses on commercialization of animal production, and the legal, political and institutional context of UPA in different West African cities.
Author : Kwaku Obosu-Mensah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429853333
Published in 1999, this book explores the emergence of contemporary urban agriculture as well as official attitudes toward this practice. Using three theoretical models, the author tells us who is more likely to be involved in urban agriculture. In line with this, he explains why, contrary to expectations, in Ghana there are more males than females involved in urban agriculture. The author also addresses issues such as the influence of social inequality and the effects of social networks on urban agriculture. Furthermore, he identifies the problems urban cultivators encounter as city farmers and how they cope with such problems. Finally, the author predicts the future trend in urban agriculture. This thought-provoking book will be of interest not only to public policy makers and planners, but also to students and teachers of African studies, urban studies, and sociology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Irrigation farming
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123189339
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309103336
This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004282698
This volume attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector and to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. It is essential to go beyond a ‘development bureaucracy’ and a state-based approach to rural transformation, such as the one that often dominates policy debate in African government circles, organizations like the African Union and the UN, and donor agencies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789290437000
Author : Donald Cole,Diana Lee-Smith,George Nasinyama
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Food supply
ISBN : 9290603550
