Agropolis:

"The Social, Political and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture"

Luc J. a. Mougeot

Earthscan, 2005 - 286 Seiten

Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide. A sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world. This book presents the first findings of original field research projects funded by IDRC's AGROPOLIS International Graduate Research Awards on Urban Agriculture. Countries studied include Argentina, Botswana, C?te d'Ivoire, Cuba, France,Togo,Tunisia, the UK and Zimbabwe.Together, these studies examine concrete strategies to better integrate 'city farming' into the urban landscape.

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Introduction	1

Migration and Food Security in Namibia	31

Chapter 2 The Pestcontrol System in the Market Gardens of Lomé Togo	51

A Tobit Approach	89

Chapter 4 Exploring the Gender Dimensions of Urban Openspace Cultivation in Harare Zimbabwe	107

Chapter 5 Gender Commercial Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Supply in Greater Gaborone Botswana	137

Shifting Perspectives on Urban Agriculture in Havana Cuba	153

Integration of Economic Social Technical and Environmental Variables	187

The Saclay Plateau France and the Sijoumi Plain Tunisia	203

Chapter 9 Assessing Benefits from Allotments as a Component of Urban Agriculture in England	239

Chapter 10 Neglected Issues on Form and Substance of Research on Urban Agriculture	267

Index	281

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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

activities Africa AGROPOLIS allotment gardening allotment holders analysis Ashford Botswana cent Central Havana commercial UA constraints context contingent valuation Côte d’Ivoire countries countryside crops Cruz Hernández Cuba cultivation economic environment environmental factors farming farmland food security Gaborone gender Greater Gaborone Greater Tunis growers Harare Havana Hernández and Medina IDRC important income inputs institutional interviews Katutura labour land land-use located Lomé Lomé’s market gardeners methodology migration MINAGRI municipal Namibia needs neighbourhood NGOs organizations organopónicos participation participatory pesticides pests plots population practices programme region residents role rural areas Saclay Plateau sample sector self-provisioning Sijoumi Plain small ruminants social space strategies survey sustainable Togo Tunis UA professionals UA systems UN-HABITAT Urban Agriculture Urban Agriculture Magazine urban areas urban farmers urban food urban households urban livestock Urban Planning variables vegetables vermicompost vermiculture Windhoek women Zimbabwe zone

Über den Autor (2005)

Luc J A Mougeot is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), where he initiated the Cities Feeding People initiative in 1997.

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Titel	Agropolis: "The Social, Political and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture"
Herausgeber	Luc J. a. Mougeot
Ausgabe	illustriert, Neuauflage
Verlag	Earthscan, 2005
ISBN	1844072312, 9781844072316
Länge	286 Seiten

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