Agriculture in Urban Planning

Mark Redwood is Programme Leader for Climate Change and Water at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and an expert on urban agriculture.

• Foreword.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  1. Household Food Security Among Urban Farmers in Nairobi, Kenya.  2. Urban Compost: A Socio-Economic and Agronomic Evaluation in Kumasi, Ghana.  3. Urban Agriculture as a Livelihood Strategy in Lima, Peru.  4. The Social and Economic Implications of Urban Agriculture on Food Security in Harare, Zimbabwe.  5. Urban Agriculture and Food Security in Lilonwe and Blantyre, Malawi.  6. An Analysis of the Quality of Wastewater Used to Irrigate Vegetables in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, Ghana.  7. Water Contamination and its Impact on Vegetable Production in the Rimac River, Peru.  8. Wastewater Use and Urban Agriculture in Kinhasa, DR Congo.  9. The Health Impacts of Farming on Producers in Rosartio, Argentina.  10. Using Participatory Education and Action Research for Health Risk Reduction amongst Farmers in Dakar, Senegal.  11. Complex Ecologies and City Spaces: Social-ecological Networks of Urban Agriculture.  12. Urban Agriculture and Physical Planning: A Case Study of Zaria, Nigeria.  13. Conclusion.  Index.

"Some outstanding pieces of work." - David Gibbon, Cambridge University Press, 2009. "Urban agriculture (UA) has many merits and this book is valuable addition to the knowledge as cities are adopting UA as key component of urban development." - Built Environment.