Determinants of domestic waste input use in urban agriculture lowland systems in Africa: The case of Yaoundé in Cameroon

Parrot, Laurent; Sotamenou, Joël; Kamgnia, Bernadette Dia; Nantchouang, Azer

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2008.08.002

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“…Many specific examples have been documented, mostly in developing regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia [1,19,55]. In these regions, the focus is often on improving the livelihoods of the poor in urban areas by providing food for consumption, reducing costs associated with food [56], diversifying activities for producing income [17], and empowering women [50,57]. Urban agriculture can also be an effective strategy for responding to a crisis.…”

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Urbanization Affects Plant Flowering Phenology And Pollinator Community: Effects Of Water Availability And Land Cover

2015

Urban Ecology

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Abstract:Urban agriculture offers an alternative land use for integrating multiple functions in densely populated areas. While urban agriculture has historically been an important element of cities in many developing countries, recent concerns about economic and food security have resulted in a growing movement to produce food in cities of developed countries including the United States. In these regions, urban agriculture offers a new frontier for land use planners and landscape designers to become involved in the development and transformation of cities to support community farms, allotment gardens, rooftop gardening, edible landscaping, urban forests, and other productive features of the urban environment. Despite the growing interest in urban agriculture, urban planners and landscape designers are often ill-equipped to integrate food-systems thinking into future plans for cities. The challenge (and opportunity) is to design urban agriculture spaces to be multifunctional, matching the specific needs and preferences of local residents, while also protecting the environment. This paper provides a review of the literature on urban agriculture as it applies to land use planning in the United States. The background includes a brief historical perspective of urban agriculture around the world, as well as more recent examples in the United States. Land use applications are considered for multiple scales, from efforts that consider an entire city, to those that impact a single building or garden. Barriers and constraints to urban agriculture are discussed, followed by research opportunities and methodological approaches that might be used to address them. This work has implications for urban planners, landscape designers, and extension agents, as opportunities to integrate urban agriculture into the fabric of our cities expand. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2010, 2 2500

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Section: International Precedentsmentioning

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Urbanization Affects Plant Flowering Phenology And Pollinator Community: Effects Of Water Availability And Land Cover

2015

Urban Ecology

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Section: International Precedentsmentioning

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Multifunctional Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Land Use Planning in the United States

2010

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Urban agriculture offers an alternative land use for integrating multiple functions in densely populated areas. While urban agriculture has historically been an important element of cities in many developing countries, recent concerns about economic and food security have resulted in a growing movement to produce food in cities of developed countries including the United States. In these regions, urban agriculture offers a new frontier for land use planners and landscape designers to become involved in the development and transformation of cities to support community farms, allotment gardens, rooftop gardening, edible landscaping, urban forests, and other productive features of the urban environment. Despite the growing interest in urban agriculture, urban planners and landscape designers are often ill-equipped to integrate food-systems thinking into future plans for cities. The challenge (and opportunity) is to design urban agriculture spaces to be multifunctional, matching the specific needs and preferences of local residents, while also protecting the environment. This paper provides a review of the literature on urban agriculture as it applies to land use planning in the United States. The background includes a brief historical perspective of urban agriculture around the world, as well as more recent examples in the United States. Land use applications are considered for multiple scales, from efforts that consider an entire city, to those that impact a single building or garden. Barriers and constraints to urban agriculture are discussed, followed by research opportunities and methodological approaches that might be used to address them. This work has implications for urban planners, landscape designers, and extension agents, as opportunities to integrate urban agriculture into the fabric of our cities expand

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“…The development of environmental education programs with proper management will be able to improve economic growth, improve food quality, created healthy communities [4]. The economic benefits of environmental education programs is improving the lives of urban poor households through improved food consumption and reduce the cost of food for the urban poor [19]. Antoher benefit is diversificating sources of income of the people the city [20] empowering women in urban areas [21], [22].…”

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The Ecological and Economic Sustainability of Environmental Education

Dirawan¹

2018

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Asian Association of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology (ICAAIP 2017)

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Determinants of domestic waste input use in urban agriculture lowland systems in Africa: The case of Yaoundé in Cameroon

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Urbanization Affects Plant Flowering Phenology And Pollinator Community: Effects Of Water Availability And Land Cover

Urbanization Affects Plant Flowering Phenology And Pollinator Community: Effects Of Water Availability And Land Cover

Multifunctional Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Land Use Planning in the United States

The Ecological and Economic Sustainability of Environmental Education

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