Author: Gordon Prain
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1441962492
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book seeks to answer the question of how much urban agriculture helps feed and support people living in towns and cities with evidence and proposals based on studies in Eastern and Central Africa.
African Urban Harvest
Author: Gordon Prain
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1441962492
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book seeks to answer the question of how much urban agriculture helps feed and support people living in towns and cities with evidence and proposals based on studies in Eastern and Central Africa.
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1441962492
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book seeks to answer the question of how much urban agriculture helps feed and support people living in towns and cities with evidence and proposals based on studies in Eastern and Central Africa.
African Urban Harvest
Author: Gordon Prain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789970251377
Category : Urban agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789970251377
Category : Urban agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Cities Feeding People
Author: Axumite G. Egziabher
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552501094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 1552501094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Cities Feeding People examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. Cities Feeding People provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.
Farming While Black
Author: Leah Penniman
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603587616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603587616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.
Growing Greener Cities in Africa
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Second Global Plan of Action addresses new challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, as well as novel opportunities, including information, communication and molecular methodologies. It contains 18 priority activities organized in four main groups: In situ conservation and management; Ex situ conservation; Sustainable use; and Building sustainable institutional and human capacities.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Second Global Plan of Action addresses new challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, as well as novel opportunities, including information, communication and molecular methodologies. It contains 18 priority activities organized in four main groups: In situ conservation and management; Ex situ conservation; Sustainable use; and Building sustainable institutional and human capacities.
Healthy City Harvests
Author: Donald Cole
Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9789290603559
Category : Food supply
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN: 9789290603559
Category : Food supply
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The New Harvest
Author: Calestous Juma
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190237236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190237236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.
African Harvest
Author: Anne Coomes
Publisher: Monarch Books
ISBN: 9781854245991
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Through African Enterprise, tens of thousands have been won for Christ and conflicts have been averted. This work tells the story of Michael Cassidy's contribution during South Africa's transition to black majority rule.
Publisher: Monarch Books
ISBN: 9781854245991
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Through African Enterprise, tens of thousands have been won for Christ and conflicts have been averted. This work tells the story of Michael Cassidy's contribution during South Africa's transition to black majority rule.
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition for Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Urban Agriculture
Author: Craig Pearson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136543147
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Most of us live in cities. These are becoming increasingly complex and removed from broad-scale agriculture. Yet within cities there are many examples of greenspaces and local food production that bring multiple benefits that often go unnoticed. This book presents a collection of the latest thinking on the multiple dimensions of sustainable greenspace and food production within cities. It describes the diversity of 'urban agriculture' and seeks a balanced representation between the biophysical and the social. It deals with urban agriculture across scales - from indoor plants to farm-scale filtration of greywater. A range of examples and initiatives from both developed and developing countries is described and evaluated.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136543147
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Most of us live in cities. These are becoming increasingly complex and removed from broad-scale agriculture. Yet within cities there are many examples of greenspaces and local food production that bring multiple benefits that often go unnoticed. This book presents a collection of the latest thinking on the multiple dimensions of sustainable greenspace and food production within cities. It describes the diversity of 'urban agriculture' and seeks a balanced representation between the biophysical and the social. It deals with urban agriculture across scales - from indoor plants to farm-scale filtration of greywater. A range of examples and initiatives from both developed and developing countries is described and evaluated.