Women Feeding Cities – complete new book now on-line

The new publication Women Feeding Cities – Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security is now available online. This publication analyses the roles of women and men in urban food production, processing and marketing in case studies from 3 development regions and includes field tested guidelines and tools for gender mainstreaming.

The publication is based on experiences gained in the context of Urban Harvest, the CGIAR System-wide Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and The Cities Farming for the Future programme of the RUAF Foundation. The book (approx. 370 pages) is published by Practical Action Publishing. For book orders contact Practical Action [ publishinginfo@practicalaction.org.uk ].

Contents table

Preface

Chapter 1 Gender in urban agriculture: an introduction 
    Why Women Feeding Cities?
    Urban agriculture
    Gender in urban agriculture – an analytical approach    
    Women feeding cities – key gender issues
    Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture efforts
    References 

Part I Case Studies

Chapter 2 
Gender dimensions of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Hyderabad, India
Gayathri Devi and Stephanie Buechler

Chapter 3
Gender in jasmine flower-garland livelihoods in peri-urban Metro Manila, Philippines
Raul Boncodin, Arma Bertuso, Jaime Gallentes, Dindo Campilan, Rehan Abeyratne, and Helen Dayo

Chapter 4
Gender and urban agriculture: the case of Accra, Ghana 
Lesley Hope, Olufunke Cofie, Bernard Keraita, and Pay Drechsel

Chapter 5
Gender in urban food production in hazardous areas in Kampala, Uganda
Grace Nabulo, Juliet Kiguli, and Lilian Kiguli

Chapter 6
Gender dynamics in the Musikavanhu urban agriculture movement, Harare, Zimbabwe 
Percy Toriro

Chapter 7
Key gender issues in urban livestock keeping and food security in Kisumu, Kenya 
Zarina Ishani

Chapter 8
Urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, and gender in Villa María del Triunfo, Peru 
Noemí Soto, Gunther Merzthal, Maribel Ordoñez, and Milagros Touzet

Chapter 9 
Gender perspectives in organic waste recycling for urban agriculture in Nairobi, Kenya
Kuria Gathuru, Mary Njenga, Nancy Karanja, and Patrick Munyao

Chapter 10 
Urban agriculture as a strategy to promote equality of opportunities and rights for men and women in Rosario, Argentina
Mariana Ponce and Lucrecia Donoso                                                                                                          

Chapter 11
The role of women-led micro-farming activities in combating HIV/AIDS in Nakuru, Kenya
Mary Njenga, Nancy Karanja, Kuria Gathuru, Samwel Mbugua, Naomi Fedha and Bernard Ngoda      
             
Chapter 12
Gender dynamics of fruit and vegetable production and processing in peri-urban Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico
Stephanie Buechler                                                                                                                                

Chapter 13
Urban agriculture and gender in Carapongo, Lima, Peru
Blanca Arce, Gordon Prain, and Luis Maldonado                                                                                           

Chapter 14 
Gender and urban agriculture in Pikine, Senegal
Gora Gaye and Mamadou Ndong Touré                                                                                                      

Part II Guidelines for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Agriculture Research and Development Projects 

Chapter 15 Incorporating gender in urban agriculture projects 
    The urban agriculture project cycle
    Phase 1: Diagnostic research
    Phase 2: Project design
    Phase 3: Activity planning
    Phase 4: Implementation
    Phase 5: Monitoring and evaluation
    Phase 6: Going to scale
    References

Chapter 16 Beyond the project cycle: institutionalizing gender mainstreaming 
    Institutionalizing gender mainstreaming
    Gender mainstreaming in the RUAF network
    Gender mainstreaming in CIP–Urban Harvest
    References

Chapter 17 Tool box for gender-sensitive urban agriculture projects 

    Introduction
    Main diagnostic research methods
    Diagnostic tools
    Design tools
    Activity-planning tools
    Implementation tools
    Monitoring and evaluation tools
    Going to scale (planning follow-up actions, dissemination, policy influencing)
    References

Chapter 18 Resources

    Annotated bibliography
            Gender and urban agriculture: concepts
            Field studies on gender and urban agriculture
            Methodologies and tools for gender mainstreaming in urban agriculture

    Websites 
List of contributors

See the complete book on-line here.