Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture

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Luc J. A. Mougeot
IDRC, 2005 - 286 Seiten
Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world.
 

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Seite 3 - Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day...
Seite 61 - a growing family of approaches and methods to enable local people to share, enhance and analyse their knowledge of life and conditions, to plan and to act'.
Seite 113 - They relate to gender divisions of labour, power and control and may include such issues as legal rights, domestic violence, equal wages and women's control over their bodies.
Seite 69 - Joslin studied more than 5,000 adult patients and found that 78 per cent of the men and 83 per cent of the women were at least 5 per cent heavier than normal at their heaviest.
Seite 25 - The periurban interface: a tale of two cities", School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales and Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Seite 49 - Basics are now a luxury: perceptions of the impact of structural adjustment on rural and urban areas in Zimbabwe", Environment and Urbanization...
Seite 261 - From the results presented in this paper, the following conclusions can be obtained for a single flexible cylinder in an in-line square array with P/d = 1-5.
Seite 200 - A primera vista la complejidad es un tejido (complexus: lo que está tejido en conjunto) de constituyentes heterogéneos inseparablemente asociados. Presenta la paradoja de lo uno y lo múltiple. Al mirar con más atención, la complejidad es, efectivamente, el tejido de eventos, acciones, interacciones, retroacciones, determinaciones, azares, que constituyen nuestro mundo fenoménico.
Seite 2 - French economist at the Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le developpement (CIRAD), in Montpellier.
Seite 113 - Practical gender needs are the needs women identify in their socially accepted roles in society. Practical gender needs do not challenge the gender divisions of labour or women's subordinate position in society, although rising out of them. Practical gender needs are a response to immediate perceived necessity, identified within a specific context.

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