Published by City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
Urban Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Implications for urban management and poverty
Beacon Mbiba
Senior Lecturer, Department of Rural & Urban Planning
University of Zimbabwe
September 1995, 238 pages
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The Making of Modern Africa Series
This book addresses the phenomenon of urban agriculture in Zimbabwe. While it acknowledges that the activity is a significant source of food and income for the urban poor, the book draws attention to development conflicts raised by the activity. It attempts to place urban agriculture within the context of urban economy, the environment, institutional concerns, gender and urban poverty. Based on ongoing research the book demonstrates that there is a potential for urban agriculture as part of the urban economy, but that the urban poor are not major beneficiaries of the activity.
Contents:
- Introduction and chapter synopsis;
- Urban agriculture in Zimbabwe: issues, dimensions and settings;
- Aspects of off-plot cultivation in Harare:
- Exploiting the commons;
- Urban cultivation on the 'home front': with reference to space availability, utilization, equity and the environment;
- Urban maize markets, hammer mills and the urban poor in Zimbabwe;
- Institutional responses to uncontrolled urban cultivation in Harare: prohibitive or accommodative?;
- Urban agriculture in Zimbabwe: testimonies of women from Warren Park, Harare;
- Images of urban cultivation: tools or products?;
- Subsistence urban cultivation in Zimbabwe: any lessons from the European garden allotments?;
- Urban agriculture as a counter productive activity: evidence from Harare;
- Sewage effluent based urban agriculture in Harare: potentials, linkages and constraints;
- The cattle of Chitungwiza: farming at close quarters or friction and conflicts on the rural and urban fringe;
- Urban agriculture and urban development: the future;
- Bibliography
