Titlebook: African Urban Harvest; Agriculture in the C Gordon Prain,Diana Lee-Smith,Nancy Karanja Book 2010 International Potato Center (CIP) 2010 Afr

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Can Schools be Agents of Urban Agriculture Extension and Seed Production?g on it as one possible mechanism toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals on hunger, poverty and the alleviation of urban slum conditions. This chapter describes an experiment aimed at improving urban and peri-urban agriculture outputs in the city of Kampala by working with schools.

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D. M. Atwater,E. S. Bres III,R. J. NiehausAnd how could it do this better? These are the questions which this book sets out to answer, and this chapter provides a regional and historical background to the research reported in the book which attempts to answer those questions. Despite the long history of agricultural production in around urb

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John R. Marshall,Rodney B. Plimptone urban dwellers for decades, and especially since the period of structural adjustment in the 1980s (Maxwell 1995). It is not that there is no food; it’s that poor urban consumers cannot afford it. This is the stark but simple truth lying behind much of the agriculture that is widespread within and

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Designing the Adaptive Organizationil the 1990s. At that time researchers began to look at some aspects of this complex phenomenon, such as the role of traditional leafy vegetables in the diet and incomes of the urban poor (Gockowski & Ndoumbé 1999). Following their attendance at a regional stakeholder meeting organized by Urban Harv

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4616-2on empirical surveys carried out in 2002–2003, but it is also an urban history, presenting a rich description coming from 20?years of documentary research on Yaoundé by the lead author. We also went back to examine and make a critique of the way the Yaoundé Structure Plan of 1981 was put together an

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Lutgart van den Berghe,Kurt Verweiree 1970s and 1980s. A capital city that reflects the country’s diversity, it is also the site of the historic Buganda Kingdom and its traditions, including agriculture. This and other socio-economic factors have contributed to agriculture being a visible part of the city’s life.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4881-9g on it as one possible mechanism toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals on hunger, poverty and the alleviation of urban slum conditions. This chapter describes an experiment aimed at improving urban and peri-urban agriculture outputs in the city of Kampala by working with schools.

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The Main Risks and Policy Considerationspopulation requires more services, the most basic being food. This increasing demand has led to recognition of the contribution of urban and peri-urban agriculture to providing food security, employment and income generation as well as productive management of idle or under-utilized resources. Stati

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4881-9ith an exploration of the health impacts associated with urban agriculture (UA) in the city. The Kampala City Council had expressed concern about the health risks associated with some forms of UA and the research team welcomed the chance to examine ways to reduce health risks and increase health ben