Global urban agriculture : convergence of theory and practice between North and South / edited by Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

WinklerPrins, Antoinette M. G. A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI, [2017]

Summary:

Urban agriculture is crucial to the environmental sustainability of cities, but the issues facing cities in the global north and south have been seen as unlinked. This book brings together evidence from both areas to highlight the interconnectedness and the contribution to social justice.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

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

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780647340

1780647344