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Database research record2017·Senegal

Urban agriculture as adaptive capacity: an example from Senegal.

Stephanie White

CABI eBooks

Urban Farm DB summary

A book chapter applying resilience theory to situate urban agriculture within city food systems and urban food security. Using urban agriculture in M'Bour, Senegal as a case, it examines how urban processes and space ("urban assemblages") produce various food vulnerabilities and resiliencies, and how food practices are leveraged to survive and thrive in dynamic, variable urban environments.