Farmers, not gardeners

Urban Farm DB summary

Drawing on a four-year research collaboration between the Development Planning Unit (DPU), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), People's Dialogue, and the Ghana Federation of the Urban Poor, this paper examines the trajectories of female and male farmers working under different and rapidly changing land tenure systems across the Accra-Ashaiman corridor in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. It argues that urban agriculture can be interpreted not merely as gardening for beautification, subsistence, or therapy, but as a means through which marginalized groups actively claim spaces of daily sociability and political voice in the city.