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Author: B. Mbiba Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This text addresses the phenomenon of urban agriculture in Zimbabwe. While it acknowledges that the activity is a significant source of food and income for the urban poor, the text draws attention to development conflicts raised by the activity. It attempts to place urban agriculture within the context of urban economy, the environment, institutional concerns, gender and urban poverty. Based on ongoing research the text demonstrates that there is a potential for urban agriculture as part of the urban economy, but that the urban poor are not beneficiaries of the activity.
Author: B. Mbiba Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This text addresses the phenomenon of urban agriculture in Zimbabwe. While it acknowledges that the activity is a significant source of food and income for the urban poor, the text draws attention to development conflicts raised by the activity. It attempts to place urban agriculture within the context of urban economy, the environment, institutional concerns, gender and urban poverty. Based on ongoing research the text demonstrates that there is a potential for urban agriculture as part of the urban economy, but that the urban poor are not beneficiaries of the activity.
Author: Charles Mutshakambi Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346074366 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 66
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Environmental Studies, grade: 5.0, Midlands State University, course: Geography and Environmental Studies, language: English, abstract: This study highlights the extent to which urban agriculture (UA) enhances food security and income generation in Ward 21 of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe against the challenges faced by the local residents where very little researches have been conducted and the data is still scarce. The expectation of this research is to benefit every stakeholder concerned about reducing food insecurity through the implementation of various urban agricultural activities. This is due to the fact that the study sought to give detailed information about the several agricultural activities in urban areas and how they help in improving the food security status and income generation to urban dwellers. Therefore all the stakeholders initiating programs mainly to reduce vulnerability of urban residence for instance NGO’s require the information in determining the types of projects to execute in those areas. UA has increasingly become a popular practice and is widely perceived to be the panacea to urban livelihood challenges. Urban households have been affected by high costs of basic food staffs and high levels of unemployment in Zimbabwe. The closure of industries and the economic meltdown from year 2000 to date has left many people jobless and with less disposable incomes in most parts of Zimbabwe. The residents of Ward 21 in Bulawayo have not been spared from these challenges of unemployment and food insecurity. According to World Bank (2015), most of the workers in Zimbabwe have salaries which fall below the poverty datum line and this has severe impacts to the workers in achieving food security. Poverty has impoverished most households in ward 21 which has left some households only having one meal a days. More so, the situation is further exacerbated by the retrenchment of workers by major companies in Bulawayo such as, Delta Beverages, Monarch and NRZ. These challenges have been further aggravated by the massive exodus of people from rural areas into urban areas .Hence given the above, achieving food security has become a problematic issue for the people residing in Ward 21.
Author: David Grossman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429778767 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 310
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Published in 1999, this work sets out to assess the potential of urban and peri-urban agriculture for generating income and for improving food supply for the growing urban population in Africa. It considers both full-time small-holder farmers and part-timers, who hold land under various tenurial conditions. Since the book is a collection of papers based on field studies, it contains a wide range of approaches, methods of investigation, and scientific findings.
Author: Luc J. A. Mougeot Publisher: IDRC ISBN: 1552501868 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 305
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Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world.
Author: Percy Toriro Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811603057 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various chapters in the book demonstrate how urban populations in Zimbabwe and elsewhere have often devised ways to produce own food to supplement on their incomes. Food is produced largely by way of urban agriculture or imported from the countryside and sold in both formal and informal stores and stalls. The book shows how in spite of the important space food occupies in the lives of all city residents, the planning and regulatory framework does not facilitate the better performance of food systems.
Author: Axumite G. Egziabher Publisher: IDRC ISBN: 1552501094 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 138
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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.
Author: Moses Makwanise Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agriculture and state Languages : en Pages : 184
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This study examines issues in informal urban farming and proposes recommendations for sustainable urban agriculture. The growing and keeping of small livestock in municipal and undeveloped urban open spaces is becoming an important source of food security and supplementary income to poor urban residents. This has been exacerbated by the deteriorating economic conditions and rapid urbanisation. Although residents are having many benefits and farming has become widespread, urban authorities are reluctant to consider it as a legitimate urban activity. Those involved in urban farming contend that it provides opportunities for households to improve their food security and supplement incomes. On the other hand city authorities view it as having negative health and environmental impacts. This has resulted in a direct clash between residents and city authorities.
Author: B. Mbiba
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Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Author: Charles Mutshakambi
Author: David Grossman
Author: Luc J. A. Mougeot
Author: Percy Toriro
Author: Axumite G. Egziabher
Author: Charles Michael Shackleton
Author: Moses Makwanise