Category FAQs Search : Urban Farming
Question: URBAN AGRICULTURE RESEARCH IN East AND CENTRAL AFRICA : RECORD, CAPACITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Answer: Urban agriculture (UA) -the cultivation of food crops and keeping of small
livestock in open spaces in and around cities- in Eastern and Central Africa and in
other third-world regions convey a diametrically different message from the quote
above on Western city living. As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, the
pressures of rapid urbanization are undermining rural resource bases. Although
global rural population may stabilize between 2020 and 2025 (UNDP, 1991:9, 19),
still the majority of the world's poor will be living in the cities.
Several problems intensify as a result. Feeding these people and maintaining
livable environments is a challenge of immense proportions to governments,
researchers, planners, decision makers and funding agents the world over.
However, recent research shows that UA is being perceived as a potential partial
solution to this problem. This review of UA research in Eastern and Central Africa
attests to this.
(Source: , 22 Sep 2021)
Source Link: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/14467/103006.pdf?sequence=1