African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in and around African cities, 2002-2006 (forthcoming book)

Editors: Gordon Prain, Nancy Karanja and Diana Lee-Smith
Publishers: CIP/Urban Harvest IDRC
Available: early 2009

Amid the multiple changes affecting sub-Saharan Africa in the last couple of decades, how has the demonstrated importance of urban agriculture in African cities changed, how far is farming better integrated into urban environmental management and city governance and what is its future role in addressing the needs of low-income urban households and modernizing cities in the region?

With case studies by leading specialists in the fields of urban agriculture and the urban environment, this book studies the changing role of agriculture in different cities and emphasises the growing role of local food production in urban livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa since the late 1980s, aiding reflection on the expanding role of urban agriculture in the movement towards an integrated management of urban natural resources and the built environment.

See ‘African Urban Harvest’ flyer here.