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Growing better cities
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ISBN: 1280718285 9786610718283 1552502422 9781552502426 9781552502266 1552502260 1552503283 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ottawa International Development Research Centre

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The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world's total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus. As a result, more and more people are attempting to grow at least some of their own food to supplement poor d

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Urban agriculture --- Sustainable development --- Urban farming --- Agriculture --- Land use, Urban --- City planning --- Agricultural assistance, Canadian --- Technical assistance, Canadian --- Canadian technical assistance --- Canadian agricultural assistance --- Urban land use --- Cities and towns --- Urban economics --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- International Development Research Centre (Canada) --- Canada. --- IDRC --- CIID --- C.I.I.D. --- I.D.R.C. --- International Development Research Centre --- Centre de recherches pour le développement international (Canada) --- Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (Canada) --- International Development Research Center (Canada) --- C.R.D.I. --- CRDI --- Markaz al-Buḥūth lil-Tanmiyah al-Dawlīyah (Canada) --- International Development Research Centre of Canada --- Centro Internacional de Investigación para el Desarrollo (Canada) --- CIID Canadá --- International Development and Research Center (Canada) --- Tỏ̂ chức nghiên cứu và phát triẻ̂n quó̂c té̂ của Canada --- CRDI Canada --- IDRC Canada --- Kanadyn Olon Ulsyn Khȯgzhliĭn Sudalgaany Tȯv --- Olon Ulsyn Khȯgzhliĭn Sudalgaany Tȯv (Canada) --- Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (Canada) --- Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (Canada) --- IDRC-CRDI --- Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo de Canadá --- E-books --- Centre de recherche pour le développement international (Canada) --- Centre de recherche pour le développement international du Canada

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