Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Davies, Julia; Hannah, Corrie; Guido, Zack; Zimmer, Andrew; McCann, Laura E.; Battersby, Jane; Evans, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101999

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“…Urban agriculture (UA) has been defined by Davies et al (2020) as "the growing of crops and raising small livestock on land within the urban boundaries of cities and towns (e.g., home gardens, vacant lots, roadsides, and balconies) for household consumption or sale in urban markets." Less than 12 years ago, about 14% of the world's population was nourished by food produced in urban and peri-urban areas (Kriewald et al, 2019).…”

Section: Urban Agriculture For Food Security and Climate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the benefits listed above, UA has been criticized for its marginal contribution to food security in lower-income urban households (White and Hamm, 2014), particularly in African urban centers (Crush et al, 2011;Frayne et al, 2016). For example, a study by Davies et al (2020) found that UA only contributes marginally to household's food security in secondary and tertiary urban areas in Zambia and Kenia. Urban food systems may also bring about negative social and environmental effects, such as lower productivity and inadequate food supply as compared with modern large-scale agriculture (Smith et al, 2019), land use and water conflicts, and contamination of water sources (Gyasi et al, 2014;Bellwood-Howard et al, 2018;Ayambire, 2019).…”

Section: Urban Agriculture For Food Security and Climate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The IPCC special report on Land and Climate Change states that urban and peri-urban food production can be among the strategies planned to improve food security, reduce GHG emissions, and prepare, respond and recover from the adverse effects of climate change in cities (Mbow et al, 2019). Urban agriculture (UA) fosters local adaptation through e.g., temperature regulation (Tsilini et al, 2015), biodiversity conservation (Lwasa et al, 2011), strengthening of ecosystem services (Lin et al, 2015) and improving urban food security (Lwasa et al, 2011;Davies et al, 2020;FAO, 2020). But urban and peri-urban agriculture is exposed to climate-related risk and increasing pressure over land due to population dynamics.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Merino¹,

Gajjar²,

Subedi³

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa face the daunting task of high urban growth and potentially devastating impacts of climate change across local communities and the economy. Urban and peri-urban food production can be among nature-based strategies planned for improving urban food security, reducing emissions, and climate adaptation. Co-operative governance, strategic planning, and accountable institutions are needed to support urban agriculture (UA), in the face of climate risks, unplanned urban development, the gendered nature of food provision, and the inability of urban farmers to self-organize toward optimal market and land access outcomes. Using a case study approach guided by qualitative content analysis with information derived from web analysis, we apply the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework to analyze underlying governance factors for UA in three selected Sub-Saharan African cities. Our three case cities of Kampala, Tamale and Cape Town reveal that UA is beginning to receive policy attention toward food security, and recognition for generating environmental, ecological, health, and human well-being benefits. Literature from specific cities however does not yet signal a local awareness and policy thrust regarding the associated and pertinent climate adaptation benefits of urban agriculture. We therefore recommend trans-disciplinary, locally-led, planning-based, and multi-sectoral approaches, involving a range of stakeholders toward recognizing and achieving the climate adaptation, environmental (ecologically restorative) and food security benefits of pursuing urban agriculture. This signals a larger role for the practice in sustainability discourse and SDGs 2 and 11, scaling out and up across large, medium and small towns, and cities of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: Urban Agriculture For Food Security and Climate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Agriculture For Food Security and Climate Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Merino¹,

Gajjar²,

Subedi³

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…• Key innovations in retail focus on investments in upgrading of informal trade outlets (Davies et al, 2021;Wertheim-Heck et al, 2014) to enhance access to affordable and safe food. Curioni et al (2020) show that investment in neighbourhoods store density and diversity can improve the consumption of fruit and leafy vegetable in Brazil, while Pérez-Ferrer et al (2020) relate obesity in Mexican neighbourhoods to the decline in fruit and vegetable store density and a simultaneous increase in chain convenience store density.…”

Section: Private Sector As Lead Innovation Agentmentioning

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From agricultural supply chains to food system transformation : Tracing the impact of private sector activities on food systems in developing countries

Ruben¹,

Dijkxhoorn²

2021

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“…UA's value is not simply its contribution to basic food security, but also the sense of pride that comes from using one's land productively (Hovorka, 2006). In addition, there are various social benefits associated with being involved in UA that enhance the livelihood strategies of poor households (Davies et al, 2021). In essence, social capital refers to the ability "to secure benefits by virtue of membership in social networks" (Cofré-Bravo, Klerkx, & Engler, 2019) and is an important element of sustainable livelihoods, as it can unlock economic, human, and other capitals (Carolan, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Exploration of Empowerment: Participation of Urban Agriculture Communities with Presence of Social Capital

Nazuri¹,

Ahmad²,

Rosnon³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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In Malaysia, Urban Agriculture program's initiative has brought local communities together to grow their own food in designated areas and at the same time to empower the community (Bernama, 2020). According to Strzelecka et al (2017) participation is important in strengthening community empowerment. However, lack of participation among UA community resulted investment and initiative done by government to waste. This study aims to identify dimension of participation (planning, implementation and evaluation) level of Urban Agriculture (UA) program's respondents towards economic and social empowerment independently, where their effect is design to be moderated by social capital consisting of bonding, bridging and linking. This study recorded majority of the respondents were male, aged between 41-60 years old, married and has obtained secondary school/vocational. Majority of them have family members between 5 to 12. Addition to that, relationship between participation, social capital towards empowerment among respondents were found to be insignificant. Hence, resulting social capital (bonding, bridging and linking) do not have moderator function on participation to empowerment.Several recommendations for future studies were discussed. First, other new variable should be examined and future research will consider using qualitative methods to conduct in-depth discussions in order to identify any additional variables with the potential to influence empowerment of UA program's respondents. Secondly, future studies should consider in looking factors effecting of weak networking social capital, and the aspects of strengthening

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Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 55 publications

References 71 publications

Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

From agricultural supply chains to food system transformation : Tracing the impact of private sector activities on food systems in developing countries

The Exploration of Empowerment: Participation of Urban Agriculture Communities with Presence of Social Capital

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