Urban Agriculture in West Africa: Contributing to Food Security and Urban Sanitation

Urban Agriculture in West Africa: Contributing to Food Security and Urban Sanitation

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Book Description
The urban agriculture sector in West and Central Africa is growing rapidly, despite an unfavorable political and policy environment. This book describes the valuable contribution that urban agriculture is making to food security and urban sanitation in the cities of the region. It also presents a strategy for launching a multi-stakeholder network on urban agriculture, and does so with input and support from producers; NGOs; national, regional, and international research institutions; donors; and policymakers and government officials at both the municipal and national levels. This book includes chapters in both English and French. Each chapter is preceeded by an abstract in the alternative language.

About the Author
Olanrewaju B. Smith holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Liege in Belgium and a PhD in Animal and Poultry Nutrition from the University of Guelph in Canada. From 1989 to 1997, Dr Smith worked as Senior Program Specialist and Regional Representative for IDRC's office in Dakar, Senegal. He is currently a Senior Program Specialist at IDRC headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.

Urban Agriculture in West Africa: Contributing to Food Security and Urban Sanitation,Olanrewaju B. Smith,IDRC,0889368902,Agriculture - Agronomy,Agriculture - General,Business / Economics / Finance,Development - Economic Development,Food Supply,General,Political Science,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Sociology,Urban Planning,Agriculture & related industries,Central Africa,Development studies,Political Science / City Planning & Urban Development,West Africa

English Books:

1. Urban Forestry: Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces, Second Edition
2. Waste Composting for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture : Closing the Rural-Urban Nutrient Cycle in Sub-Saharan Africa (CABI Publishing)
3. Water Reuse for Irrigation: Agriculture, Landscapes, and Turf Grass
4. Who's Hungry? and How Do We Know?: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation
5. Agribusiness Management
6. Agricultural Development in the Third World (The Johns Hopkins Studies in Development)
7. Agricultural Systems Management: Optimizing Efficiency and Performance (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)
8. Agricultural Systems Modeling and Simulation (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)
9. Agriculture in Australia : An Introduction
10. Agroforestry for Soil Management (CABI Publishing)

English Books

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