Gender and urban agriculture

Urban Farm DB summary

A book chapter reviewing global research on gender and urban agriculture. It notes that limited statistics and inconsistent definitions of urban agriculture make an accurate profile of operators difficult, but regional studies show women make up the majority of urban agriculturalists. The chapter discusses women's motivations for engaging in urban agriculture and its links to neighborhood-level change, identifies seven challenges facing women urban growers drawn from the academic literature, and sets out a future research agenda on women urban agriculturalists.