عنوان

African urban harves

(Number (ISBN

9781441962508 (electronic bk.)

Country Code

IR

Number

E-5265

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

African urban harves

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

:agriculture in the cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda

First Statement of Responsibility

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

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

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

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, c2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xx, 322 p.)

Other Physical Details

: , ill., maps.

Text of Note

Print

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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.

Variant Title

Agriculture in the cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda

Urban agriculture, Africa, Sub-Saharan

Food supply, Africa, Sub-Saharan

Electronic books

Business

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Book number

Prain, Gordon

Lee-Smith, Diana

Karanja, Nancy

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Country

ایران

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