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" Agriculture in urban planning : "
edited by Mark Redwood.
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1041260
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b795630
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| Title & Author
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Agriculture in urban planning : : generating livelihoods and food security /\ edited by Mark Redwood.
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Ottawa, ON :: International Development Research Centre ;London ;Sterling, VA :: Earthscan,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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1136572058
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: 1281974447
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: 1849770433
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: 9781136572050
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: 9781281974440
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: 9781435699472
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: 9781849770439
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1844076687
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9781844076680
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city farming to livelihoods and food security. Case studies cover food production diversification for robust and secure food provision; the socio-economic and agronomic aspects of urban composting; urban agriculture as a viable livelihood strategy; strategies for integrating city farming into ur.
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Sustainable development-- Developing countries.
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Urban agriculture-- Developing countries.
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Sustainable development.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Agronomy-- Crop Science.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- Agronomy-- General.
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Urban agriculture.
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Developing countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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630.9173/2
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S494.5.U72A42 2009eb
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cci1icclacc
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coll11lacc
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| Added Entry
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Redwood, Mark.
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