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1 online resource (184 pages)
ISBN:
9780773562806
Content:
Urban agriculture, until now largely neglected, is of increasing economic significance in many African cities. Agriculture in the heart of the city is critical to the survival of very poor families and, especially, women and landless or unemployed rural migrants.
Content:
Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773508224
Additional Edition:
Print version City of Farmers : Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Freeman, Donald B. A city of farmers Montreal [u.a.] : McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1991 ISBN 0773508228
Language:
English
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