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Title:Agropolis: the social, political, and environmental dimensions of urban agriculture
Editor:Mougeot, Luc J.A.ISNI
Year:2005
Pages:286
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Earthscan
ISBN:1844072312; 1844072320
Geographic terms:Namibia
Togo
Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Tunisia
Cuba
Argentina
Great Britain
Subjects:urban agriculture
food security
food supply
land use
External link:https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/agropolis-social-political-and-environmental-dimensions-urban-agriculture
Abstract:Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide. 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 Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Cuba, France, and the UK. The studies examine strategies to better integrate 'city farming' into the urban landscape. Contents: Introduction (Luc J. A. Mougeot); Survival of the poorest: migration and food security in Namibia (Bruce Frayne); The Pest-control system in the market gardens of Lomé, Togo (Komla Tallaki); Determinants of urban livestock adoption in the 'zone dense' of Khorogo, Côte d'Ivoire: a Tobit approach (Mody Bakar Barry); Exploring the gender dimensions of urban open-space cultivation in Harare, Zimbabwe (Stephanie Gabel); Gender, commercial urban agriculture and urban food supply in Greater Gaborone, Botswana (Alice Hovorka); Moving between the plan and the ground: shifting perspectives on urban agriculture in Havana, Cuba (Adriana Premat); Urban agriculture and local sustainable development in Rosario, Argentina: integration of economic, social, technical and environmental variables (Eduardo Spiaggi); Agri-urban development from a land-use planning perspective: the Saclay Plateau (France) and the Sijoumi Plain (Tunisia) (Moez Bouraoui); Assessing benefits from allotments as a component of urban agriculture in England (Arturo Perez-Vasquez, Simon Anderson and Alan W. Rogers); Neglected issues on form and substance of research on urban agriculture (Luc J. A. Mougeot). [Book abstract, edited]
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