Agriculture in urban planning
Subtitle: generating livelihoods and food security
By: edited by Mark Redwood.
Contributors: Redwood, Mark.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781844076680
Subjects: Urban agriculture -- Developing countries; Sustainable development -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Household food security among urban farmers in Nairobi, Kenya; title: Urban compost: a socio-economic and agronomic evaluation in Kumasi, Ghana; title: Urban agriculture as a livelihood strategy in Lima, Peru; title: The social and economic implications of urban agriculture on food security in Harare, Zimbabwe; title: Urban agriculture and food security in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi / David Dalison Mkwambisi; title: An analysis of the quality of wastewater used to irrigate vegetables in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale (Ghana); title: Water contamination and its impact on vegetable production in the Rímac River, Peru / Henry Juarez; title: Wastewater use and urban agriculture in kinshasa, DR Congo / Kifuani Kia Mayeko; title: The health impacts of farming on producers in Rosario, Argentina / Patricia Silvia Propersi; title: Using participatory education and action research for health risk reduction amongst farmers in Dakar, Senegal / Nita Chaudhuri; title: Complex ecologies and city spaces: social-ecological networks of urban agriculture / Laura J. Shillington; title: Urban agriculture and physical planning: a case study of Zaria, Nigeria / Chuo Adamu Nsangu.