African Urban Harvest

African Urban Harvest
Author: Gordon Prain
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2010-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1441962492

This book seeks to answer the question of how much urban agriculture helps feed and support people living in towns and cities with evidence and proposals based on studies in Eastern and Central Africa.

Healthy City Harvests

Healthy City Harvests
Author: Donald Cole
Publisher: International Potato Center
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2008
Genre: Food supply
ISBN: 9789290603559

Urban Agriculture

Urban Agriculture
Author: Craig Pearson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1136543139

Most of us live in cities. These are becoming increasingly complex and removed from broad-scale agriculture. Yet within cities there are many examples of greenspaces and local food production that bring multiple benefits that often go unnoticed. This book presents a collection of the latest thinking on the multiple dimensions of sustainable greenspace and food production within cities. It describes the diversity of 'urban agriculture' and seeks a balanced representation between the biophysical and the social. It deals with urban agriculture across scales - from indoor plants to farm-scale filtration of greywater. A range of examples and initiatives from both developed and developing countries is described and evaluated.

Growing Greener Cities in Africa

Growing Greener Cities in Africa
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The Second Global Plan of Action addresses new challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, as well as novel opportunities, including information, communication and molecular methodologies. It contains 18 priority activities organized in four main groups: In situ conservation and management; Ex situ conservation; Sustainable use; and Building sustainable institutional and human capacities.

Cities Feeding People

Cities Feeding People
Author: Axumite G. Egziabher
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1552501094

Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.