Published by City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture

Urban Food Production:

Evolution, Official Support and Significance

(with special reference to Africa)

by Luc J.A. Mougeot
(C) Copyright 1994
International Development Research Centre
Cities Feeding People Series
Report 8

• 1.0 INTRODUCTION

• 2.0 EVOLUTION OF URBAN AGRICULTURE
  • 2.1 Pre-Industrial Revolution City Farming
  • 2.2 Post-Industrial Revolution City Farming

• 3.0 OFFICIAL SUPPORT FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE
  • 3.1 The Asian Leadership: City-Farming Today as it Will be Tomorrow
  • 3.2 Expansion of Urban Agriculture Outside Asia
    • 3.2.1 Nairobi - Kenya
    • 3.2.2 Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
  • 3.3 Local Authorities' Changing Attitudes Toward City Farming
    • 3.3.1 North America
    • 3.3.2 Latin America
    • 3.3.3 Africa
  • 3.4 City Farming on Global Agendas of Local Authorities

• 4.0 SIGNIFICANCE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE
  • 4.1 Urban Vulnerability to Food Imports
  • 4.2 Food: Basic Luxury for the Urban Poor
  • 4.3 The Rise of Urban Agriculture: How Many Do It?
  • 4.4 African City Farming: Tapping Underused Human and Land Resources
  • 4.5 Urban Agriculture Shouldering Cities' Food Self-Reliance
  • 4.6 City Farming's Benefits to Urban Households
    • 4.6.1 Contribution to Food Intake
    • 4.6.2 Nutritional Impact
    • 4.6.3 Cash Savings
    • 4.6.4 Income Generation
    
    
    
  • 4.7 The Booming Business of Urban Animal Husbandry
  • 4.8 The Spatial Distribution of Urban Agriculture
    • 4.8.1 Urban Agriculture: An Adaptive and Mobile Land Use
  • 4.9 Urban Agriculture is Not Only the Poor's Business
  • 4.10 Urban Agriculture is Not for the Neophyte

• 5.0 CONCLUSION

• REFERENCES

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