Alternative food security strategy: A household analysis of urban agriculture in Kampala

Maxwell, Daniel

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(95)00073-l

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“…In many countries, it is mostly women who are responsible for the cultivation of urban agricultural plots (Maxwell 1995;Mbiba 1995). Bryld (2003) suggests two reasons for this, namely that farming of small plots close to the home can readily be accommodated into women's daily work routines and that men generally perceive urban agriculture as a marginal activity rather than a serious business endeavor.…”

Section: Poverty and Urban Agriculturementioning

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Give peas a chance? Urban agriculture in developing countries. A review

Hamilton

Burry

Mok

et al. 2013

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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International audienceUrban agriculture is receiving increasing attention throughout the developing world, but debate rages as to whether it is a blessing or a curse. Some see it as savior for the poor, providing food, and livelihoods, yet to others it is responsible for harboring and vectoring pathogenic diseases and is an archaic practice that has no place along the path toward development. Consequently, the activity receives a mixed reception, and despite much support in many instances, it certainly does not enjoy universal unimpeded progress. Here, we undertake a global tour of urban agriculture throughout the developing world in an attempt to elucidate the various benefits, costs, and hindrances associated with the practice. Through this analysis we identify the need for better understanding of the following six aspects if urban agriculture is to make a meaningful contribution to food security and sustenance of livelihoods in the future: (1) the global and regional extent of urban agriculture; (2) the contribution of urban agriculture to communicable diseases, especially malaria but also diarrheal disease; (3) the role that urban agriculture does and/or could play in abating both malnutrition and obesity; (4) the impacts of urban agriculture on women; (5) appropriate methods of achieving governance and institutional support; and (6) the risks posed by chemical pollutants, particularly as Africa becomes increasingly industrialized. Overlaying these, we suggest that the time is ripe to extend the debate about urban agriculture’s positive and negative environmental impacts—especially in relation to carbon emissions—from primarily a developed world concern to the developing world, particularly since it is the developing world where population growth and consequent resource use is increasing most rapidly

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Section: Poverty and Urban Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Give peas a chance? Urban agriculture in developing countries. A review

Hamilton

Burry

Mok

et al. 2013

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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142

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“…In Jessore, the predicted probability of engaging in UPA is 33.8% for a household with the number of family members equal to the mean minus the standard deviation ( ), 41.7% at the mean ( ), and 50.1% at the mean plus the standard deviation ( ). As pointed out by Dossa et al (2011) andMaxwell (1995) when examining the case of urban cities in Africa, the more members there are in a family, the more likely a family is to engage in urban agriculture in Jessore. The predicted probability for a household with more than one child under five years old to engage in UPA is 35.5%, which is 12.4% lower than that for a household without any children under five, indicating that having a young child under five is a deterrent for engaging in UPA in Jessore.…”

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“…UPA is roughly defined as growing food crops (such as vegetables, root and tuber crops, staple grains, and fruits) and raising domestic animals (such as poultry, cattle, swine, and goats) within and around urban areas. Various empirical studies claim that UPA has been considered a solution for improving poor living conditions in undeveloped urban and peri-urban areas of developing countries, on the grounds of its effects on improving household food and nutrition intakes (Amrullah et al, 2017;Bhatta et al, 2008;Bukusuba et al, 2007;Dossa et al, 2011;Gallaher et al, 2013a;Lynch et al, 2013;Smart et al, 2015;Zezza and Tasciotti, 2010) and the physique of a child (Maxwell, 1995;Maxwell et al, 1998), increasing or diversifying household income (Amrullah et al, 2017;Ashebir et al, 2007;Maxwell, 1995;Smart et al, 2015;Zezza and Tasciotti, 2010), providing remunerative economic activities for women (Mudimu, 1996;Maxwell, 1995), empowering women through economic independence (Gororo and Kashangura, 2016;Masvaure, 2015;Simiyu and Foeken, 2014), and accumulating social capital (Gallaher et al, 2013a).…”

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“…However, determinants or deterrents of urban and periurban agriculture in developing countries have rarely been examined in detail, with the few exceptions pointing out that the more members there are in a family (Dossa et al, 2011;Maxwell, 1995) and the longer their length of stay at their current residential address (Maxwell, 1995), the more likely a family is to engage in urban agriculture in cities in Africa. Additionally, previous studies regarding UPA have paid considerable attention to African countries only where severe food poverty has been pervasive, and UPA in Asian countries has rarely been discussed.…”

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Who engages in urban and peri-urban agriculture in the condensed urban slums of Bangladesh?

Yamashita¹,

Ishida²

2017

J. Dev. Agric. Econ.

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Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) have been considered solutions for improving poor living conditions in undeveloped urban and peri-urban areas of developing countries. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the factors affecting UPA decision-making, with special attention to land constraints among poor urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh. A logit regression model was applied using secondary individual household data obtained from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the predicted probabilities of engaging in UPA for each significant independent variable were estimated. In moderately populated Jessore, households that had more family members without children under five, had some savings, lived in their own house or lived there without paying rent, and had any water logging around the house 1 to 60 days per year were more likely to engage in UPA than other households. On the other hand, in densely populated Tongi, households that lived in their own house or lived there without paying rent, lived there for longer periods, had any water logging around the house less than four months per year, or could rely on neighbors through a difficult period were more likely to engage in UPA than other households. This finding suggests that constraint factors associated with engaging in UPA differ in various urban settings. Therefore, nonprofit/community organizations or local governments are required to plan carefully when promoting UPA, which is one of the coping strategies of poor urban dwellers wishing to enhance their resilience against food insecurity.

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“…-set. 2011 O cultivo de hortaliças nas áreas urbanas e periurbanas, com ou sem o apoio governamental, tomou impulso a partir de 1980 na América Latina, África e Ásia como uma estratégia de sobrevivência das populações mais pobres atingidas pela crise econômica que se instalou nessas regiões (Maxwell, 1995;Bryld, 2003). No Brasil, hortas urbanas e periurbanas começaram a ter grande ênfase nessa época com apoio dos governos municipais e instituições locais (Farfán et al, 2008;Monteiro & Monteiro, 2008).…”

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Hortas urbanas e periurbanas: o que nos diz a literatura brasileira?

Branco

Alcântara

2011

Hortic. Bras.

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Urban and periurban gardens: what does the Brazilian literature tell us?Growing vegetables in backyards and in community gardens gained importance as an alternative policy for the reduction of poverty and the increasing of household food intake since the final years of the late century in Brazil. The Brazilian experiences have been reported in different scientific publications but until now, there has not been an attempt to evaluate those results. For that purpose, Brazilian scientific publications were sought in the sites www.google. com.br, www.scielo.com.br, www.periodicos.capes.gov.br and in the Lattes platform from CNPq. The results showed that the majority of publications were available to download free. The number of publications increased between 1996 and 2009 and most of them were published in Congresses and Meetings. Vegetable cultivation contributed to increase of the welfare of population. Nonetheless, several difficulties were reported: chiefly among these, the lack of social organization, lack of access to technical assistance, capital, land and water. Until now, the majority of these projects have been of short duration (less than three years); therefore it is necessary to carry out long term researches in order to evaluate strategies for overcoming these difficulties.

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Alternative food security strategy: A household analysis of urban agriculture in Kampala

Cited by 166 publications

References 11 publications

Give peas a chance? Urban agriculture in developing countries. A review

Give peas a chance? Urban agriculture in developing countries. A review

Who engages in urban and peri-urban agriculture in the condensed urban slums of Bangladesh?

Hortas urbanas e periurbanas: o que nos diz a literatura brasileira?

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