Research & reports

Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.

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• To Subsidise My Income: Urban farming in an East-African town, by Dick Foeken

  2008

  M. B. David · African Affairs · Kenya

  This study on urban agriculture in the Kenyan town of Nakuru illustrates health and environmental problems associated with keeping livestock in urban areas, the small size of plots cultivated, and the dependence of urban households on rural sources of food. These findings were observed in the context of economic hardships occasioned by structural adjustment programmes since the 1980s.

  Environmental trade-offsCommunityEconomicsHealthUrban–rural linkage
  Read source →DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adn071

• Environmental concerns of urban and peri-urban agriculture: case studies from Accra and Kumasi.

  2001

  E. Mensah, Philip Amoah, Pay Drechsel, Robert Clement Abaidoo · CABI Publishing eBooks · Sub-Saharan Africa

  This work, presented as case studies from Accra and Kumasi, addresses environmental concerns of urban and peri-urban agriculture. It focuses on waste composting for urban and peri-urban agriculture, aiming to close the rural-urban nutrient cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  Environmental trade-offsPeri-urban agricultureCompostOrganic cycle
  Read source →DOI: 10.1079/9780851995489.0055