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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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06091-6e early 2000s. The issue is of central importance to understanding the potential benefits of a properly managed urban agriculture sector, since soil fertility is a major problem in Sub-Saharan Africa and urban wastes represent a large potential source of nutrients (Savala et al. 2003). Mougeot (1993

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06091-6city, this chapter presents a more in-depth picture of sources and types of waste generated by farmers in an urban area and the management practices involved. Both studies are aimed at informing policy. Whereas the Nairobi study focused on the handling of nutrients by community-based organizations,

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06091-6n where urban farming is widely practiced to mitigate hunger and poor nutrition as well as reduce food expenditures. This study examines a selected range of health risks as compared to the benefits for an urban population for which a considerable quantity of background data are available, namely Nak

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06091-6 Kenya’s national development agenda, articulated in policies such as the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation in Kenya after the change of government in December 2002. Those policies’ priorities of ensuring food security and livel

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06091-6hlight the role played by international collaboration in supporting these, focusing on a group of institutions and how their interactions have evolved over time. Even though these institutions only formalised their programs on urban agriculture over the last decade or so, several were already active

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Identifying Market Opportunities for Urban and Peri-Urban Farmers in Kampalastics from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) indicate that approximately 800 million people are engaged in urban agriculture worldwide with the majority in Asian cities. Of these, 200 million are considered to be market-oriented producers, employing 150 million people full time (Smit et al. 1997).

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IDRC and Its Partners in Sub-Saharan Africa 2000–2008 in the field earlier. The ideas and concepts associated with urban agriculture have been around for even longer, while the reality of urban agriculture itself dates as far back as humanity’s first urban settlements. For one, the “garden city” concept is rooted in modern urban planning (Smit et al. 1996; Lee-Smith & Cole 2008).