ISBN:
9780773562806
,
077356280X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 159 p., [8] p. of plates)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Freeman, Donald B City of farmers
DDC:
306.3490967625
Keywords:
Urban agriculture Kenya
;
Nairobi
;
Open spaces Kenya
;
Nairobi
;
Agriculture urbaine Kenya
;
Nairobi
;
Nairobi
;
Kenya
;
Nairobi
;
Urban agriculture
;
Open spaces
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Agriculture & Food
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HISTORY ; Africa ; East
;
Open spaces
;
Urban agriculture
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Kenya ; Nairobi
;
Nairobi
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
""7 Inner City Farmers and Suburban Cultivators: A Comparison""""8 Urban Farmland: Questions of Ownership""; ""9 The Role of Women Cultivators""; ""10 Maize, Beans, and What Else? Cultivation Practices of Nairobi's Urban Farmers""; ""11 Harsh Realities: Impediments and Problems of Urban Agriculture""; ""PART THREE: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE""; ""12 The Importance of Open-Space Farming to Urban Families""; ""13 The Importance of Urban Agriculture to the Community and the Nation""; ""Appendix I: The 1987 York�Kenyatta University Survey""; ""Appendix 2: Statistical Tables""
Abstract:
""Glossary of Kiswahili Terms""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Abstract:
""Contents""; ""Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Illustrations""; ""PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF URBAN AGRICULTURE""; ""1 The Lure of the City""; ""2 Promises Unfulfilled: Life in the Urban Informal Sector""; ""3 Open Spaces and Colonial Views: The Early Years in Nairobi""; ""4 Open Space in the ""City Beautiful"": Nairobi as a Modern, Planned Capital""; ""PART TWO: KENYA'S URBAN FARMERS AND THEIR GARDENS""; ""5 Urban Food Production and Consumption in Six Kenyan Municipalities""; ""6 City Dwellers with Farming Backgrounds: Nairobi's Urban Cultivators""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-153) and index. - Description based on print version record
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