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Cities feeding people: an update on urban agriculture in equatorial Africa [1]

For several decades, a diverse literature has claimed that urban agriculture has the potential for hunger and poverty alleviation. This article reviews empirical data from equatorial Africa that touch on this assertion, updating the work on the subject published in the mid-1990s. Research, largely from East Africa but also including Cameroon in West Central Africa, appearing in several recent and currently emerging publications is assessed and compared. The article
attempts to quantify the extent of urban agriculture in several cities based on the proportion of urban households involved, and assesses its statistical and qualitative relationship to urban food and nutrition security as well as its complex relationship to poverty.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Diana Lee-Smith [2]
Environment & Urbanization [3]
22
2
483-499
Tags:
Urban Habitat [4], Urban Agriculture [5], Africa [6], Food Security [7], Poverty [8], Livestock [9], Ethiopia [10], Tanzania [11], Uganda [12], Kenya [13], Vegetables [14], Poultry [15], Cattle [16], Pigs [17]

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