Category FAQs Search : Urban Farming
Question: Urban agriculture between allotment and market gardening: contributions to the sustainability of African and Asian cities
Answer: Due to severe competition for urban space from economically and politically much stronger fimctions, agricultural production is not considered sustainable in urban areas, Nevertheless, it is found all over the world and plays many different roles, including the supply of fresh food and flowers, a meaningful way of spending leisure time and supplementary income for many of theurban poor in third-world cities, Other roles are the management of greenspace or temporarily vacant land in cities at very low cost to the local authorities, and the recycling of organic waste. Drawing from a number of case studies in Africa and SE Asia, the present paper shows how difficult it is to play such valuable roles in the face of both imagined and real problems of public health or environmental degradation. At the same time, these urban agricultural producers may have to depend on polluted streams for irrigation,they may cause soil erosion by inappropriate farming techniques, or they may poison surrounding urban residents through the pesticides they apply.
(Source: , 28 Sep 2021)
Source Link: https://www.witpress.com/Secure/elibrary/papers/URS02/URS02091FU.pdf.