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There has been growing attention paid to urban agriculture worldwide because of its role in making cities more environmentaly sustainable while also contributing to enhanced food access and social justice. This edited volume brings together current research and case studies concerning urban agriculture from both the Global North and the Global South. Its objective is to help bridge the long-standing divide between discussion of urban agriculture in the Global North and the Global South and to demonstrate that today there are greater areas of overlap than there are differences both theoretically and substantively, and that research in either area can help inform research in the other. The book covers the nature of urban agriculture and how it supports livelihoods, provides ecosystem services, and community development. It also considers urban agriculture and social capital, networks, and agro-biodiversity conservation. Concepts such as sustainability, resilience, adaptation and community, and the value of urban agriculture as a recreational resource are explored. It also examines, quite fundamentally, why people farm in the city and how urban agriculture can contribute to more sustainable cities in both the Global North and the Global South. Key Features: · One of the first volumes to bring together evidence from urban agriculture in the Global North and the Global South · Explores the contribution of urban agriculture to livelihoods, ecosystems and conservation · Numerous case studies examine a very diverse range of urban agriculture systems

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Author:   Antoinette WinklerPrins (Johns Hopkins University, USA) ,  Susan Algert (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension, USA) ,  ms Imogen Bellwood-Howard ,  Imogen Bellwood-Howard
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.788kg
ISBN:  

9781780647326

ISBN 10:   1780647328
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   24 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Defining and Theorizing Global Urban Agriculture 2: A View from the South: Bringing Critical Planning Theory to Urban Agriculture 3: North American Urban Agriculture: Barriers and Benefits 4: A Survey of Urban Community Gardeners in the USA 5: Gardens in the City: Community, Politics and Place in San Diego, California 6: `Growing food is work': The Labour Challenges of Urban Agriculture in Houston, Texas 7: The Marketing of Vegetables in a Northern Ghanaian City: Implications and Trajectories 8: Hunger for Justice: Building Sustainable and Equitable Communities in Massachusetts 9: Sustainability's Incomplete Circles: Towards a Just Food Politics in Austin, Texas and Havana, Cuba 10: A Political Ecology of Community Gardens in Australia: From Local Issues to Global Lessons 11: Urban Agriculture as Adaptive Capacity: An Example from Senegal 12: Intersection and Material Flow in Open-space Urban Farms in Tanzania 13: Relying on Urban Gardens for Survival within the Building of a Modern City in Colombia 14: Regreening Kibera: How Urban Agriculture Changed the Physical and Social Environment of a Large Slum in Kenya 15: Farm Fresh in the City: Urban Grassroots Food Distribution Networks in Finland 16: The Appropriation of Space through `Communist Swarms': A Socio-spatial Examination of Urban Apiculture in Washington, DC 17: Urban Agriculture and the Reassembly of the City: Lessons from Wuhan, China 18: The Contribution of Smallholder Irrigated Urban Agriculture Towards Household Food Security in Harare, Zimbabwe 19: Community Gardens as Urban Social-Ecological Refuges in the Global North 20: Global Urban Agriculture into the Future: Urban Cultivation as Accepted Practice

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Antoinette WinklerPrins is at Johns Hopkins University.

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