Cecomaf Urban Market Gardening Station (Kinshasa, Ndjili)
Kinshasa, DR Congo · Operator: 個々の都市菜園農家（運営主体は出典の研究では特定されていない） / Individual market gardeners; no operating organisation is identified in the cited study
Overview
An urban market gardening station in the Ndjili commune of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with Lutendele it is described as one of the largest intensive urban agriculture sites in Kinshasa, producing leafy vegetables for the city.
Citizen participation
A cluster of intensive urban vegetable plots in Kinshasa's Ndjili commune, where individual growers farm parcels of leafy vegetables for sale in the city. How participation is organised is not described in the 2025 study that documents the site.
Operating model
Market-oriented vegetable production, with Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) as a main crop that is widely consumed locally. Prices, revenues and distribution channels are not reported in the source.
Impact
The site supplies leafy vegetables to the city, but 11 Chinese cabbage leaf samples taken in August 2025 exceeded FAO/WHO maximum permissible limits for chromium, copper, cadmium, lead and mercury, with copper reaching 115.39 mg/kg. Hazard indices of 2.98–16.11 were far above the safe threshold of 1, and Monte Carlo simulation put the probability of exceeding the WHO lead limit at 98.1%. Identifying and remediating the contamination source remains unresolved.
Crops
- Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis)
Scale
出典の研究では4区画の作付け圃場から11地点を採取。総面積・農家戸数は記載なし / The cited study sampled 11 points across four crop fields; total area and number of growers are not reported
Sources（1）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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