Journal Article10.1080/09614524.2011.530234
Women Feeding Cities: Mainstreaming Gender in Urban Agriculture and Food Security
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TL;DR: Hovorka, de Zeeuw, and Njenga as mentioned in this paper presented a women feeding cities: Mainstreaming Gender in Urban Agriculture and Food Security Practical Action Publishing, Rugby, UK, 2009, ISBN: 978 1 8533...
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Abstract: Alice Hovorka, Henk de Zeeuw, and Mary Njenga (eds.) Women Feeding Cities: Mainstreaming Gender in Urban Agriculture and Food Security Practical Action Publishing, Rugby, UK, 2009, ISBN: 978 1 8533...
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Food coping strategies in northern Ghana. A socio-spatial analysis along the urban–rural continuum
Takemore Chagomoka,Sophie Unger,Axel Drescher,Rüdiger Glaser,Bernd Marschner,Johannes Schlesinger +5 more
TL;DR: Five coping strategies along the urban–rural continuum are identified as the most severe in times of food insecurity, namely skipping a whole day without food, borrowing, buying food on credit, consuming seed stock and restricting adult intake in favour of children.
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Hana Cadzow,Tony Binns +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the experiences of women farmers, and in doing so shed new light on their vital contribution to Freetown's growing urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) community.
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Food production and gender relations in multifunctional landscapes: a literature review
Lisa Westholm,Madelene Ostwald +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review 104 scientific articles dealing with food production and security in a range of multifunctional land use systems across Africa, Asia and Latin America, including agroforestry, homegardens, livestock systems and urban agriculture, and find that the specific role of a landscape's multifunctionality for women's opportunities to enhance food security is rarely explicitly examined in scientific literature.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study was designed to assess the contribution of urban agriculture to socio-economic development of urban farmers in Nasarawa state, where one urban town was purposively selected from each of the 3 Senatorial zones in the state to give three (3) urban towns namely Keffi, Akwanga and Lafia.
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