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African urban harves

9781441962508 (electronic bk.)

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E-5265

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African urban harves

[Book]

:agriculture in the cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda

/ Gordon Prain, Nancy Karanja, Diana Lee-Smith, editors

New York

: Springer ;Ottawa :International Development Research Centre ;Lima, Peru :International Potato Center,

, c2010.

1 online resource (xx, 322 p.)

: , ill., maps.

Print

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

1. The Institutional and Regional Context / Gordon Prain -- 2. Urban Agriculture in Africa: What Has Been Learned? / Diana Lee-Smith -- Part I. Cameroon -- 3. Urban Farming Systems in Yaounde -- Building a Mosaic / Ludovic Temple -- 4. Crop-Livestock Integration in the Urban Farming Systems of Yaounde / Christian Nolte -- 5. Institutional Development of Urban Agriculture -- An Ongoing History of Yaounde / Louis Awono -- Part II. Uganda -- 6. Changing Trends in Urban Agriculture in Kampala / George W. Nasinyama -- 7. Can Schools be Agents of Urban Agriculture Extension and Seed Production? / Peter Kingori -- 8. Identifying Market Opportunities for Urban and Peri-Urban Farmers in Kampala / John Jagwe -- 9. Health Impact Assessment of Urban Agriculture in Kampala / Diana Lee-Smith -- Part III. Kenya -- 10. Recycling Nutrients from Organic Wastes in Kenya's Capital City / Will Frost -- 11. Crop-Livestock-Waste Interactions in Nakuru's Urban Agriculture / Patrick Muendo Munyao -- 12. Benefits and Selected Health Risks of Urban Dairy Production in Nakuru, Kenya / Anthony Karanja -- 13. Urban Agroforestry Products in Kisumu, Kenya: A Rapid Market Assessment / Anthony J. Simons -- Part IV. Urban Agriculture and Institutional Change -- 14. IDRC and Its Partners in Sub-Saharan Africa 2000-2008 / Henk de Zeeuw -- 15. The Contribution of Research-Development Partnerships to Building Urban Agriculture Policy / Gordon Prain -- Acronyms.

Agriculture in the cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda

Urban agriculture, Africa, Sub-Saharan

Food supply, Africa, Sub-Saharan

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Prain, Gordon

Lee-Smith, Diana

Karanja, Nancy

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

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