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Agriculture in urban planning : generating livelihoods and food security

Author: Mark Redwood
Publisher: Ottawa, ON : International Development Research Centre ; London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
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Agriculture in urban planning.
Ottawa, ON : International Development Research Centre ; London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009
(DLC) 2008023954
(OCoLC)231946990
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Redwood
ISBN: 9781849770439 1849770433 9781435699472 1435699475 9781552504277 1552504271
OCLC Number: 304713479
Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 248 p.) : ill., maps.
Contents: Household food security among urban farmers in Nairobi, Kenya / Eunice Wambui Njogu --
Urban compost: a socio-economic and agronomic evaluation in Kumasi, Ghana / Nikita S. Eriksen-Hamel and George Danso --
Urban agriculture as a livelihood strategy in Lima, Peru / Luis Maldonado Villavicencio --
The social and economic implications of urban agriculture on food security in Harare, Zimbabwe / Charity Mutonodzo --
Urban agriculture and food security in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi / David Dalison Mkwambisi --
An analysis of the quality of wastewater used to irrigate vegetables in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale (Ghana) / Philip Amoah --
Water contamination and its impact on vegetable production in the Rímac River, Peru / Henry Juarez --
Wastewater use and urban agriculture in kinshasa, DR Congo / Kifuani Kia Mayeko --
The health impacts of farming on producers in Rosario, Argentina / Patricia Silvia Propersi --
Using participatory education and action research for health risk reduction amongst farmers in Dakar, Senegal / Nita Chaudhuri --
Complex ecologies and city spaces: social-ecological networks of urban agriculture / Laura J. Shillington --
Urban agriculture and physical planning: a case study of Zaria, Nigeria / Chuo Adamu Nsangu.
Responsibility: edited by Mark Redwood.
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