TY - BOOK ID - 77679471 TI - Cités horticoles en sursis? : l'agriculture urbaine dans les grandes Niayes au Sénégal. AU - Fall, Safiétou Touré AU - Fall, Abdou Salam. PY - 2001 SN - 0889369364 9780889369368 1552502651 9781552502655 1280850035 9781280850035 9786610850037 6610850038 PB - Ottawa Centre de recherches pour le développement international DB - UniCat KW - Urban agriculture KW - Urban vegetation management KW - Horticulture KW - Agriculture en milieu urbain KW - Horticultural science KW - Horticultural sciences KW - Agriculture KW - Gardening KW - Urban landscape vegetation management KW - Vegetation management KW - Urban farming KW - Land use, Urban UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77679471 AB - The production crisis in rural agricultural systems is stimulating urban agriculture and particularly, horticulture and livestock. These two sectors together absorb a fraction of the rural migrants, lead to the creation of cash activities, and bring in profits thanks to the farmers' proximity to urban markets. This study examines the case of Senegal's Niayes Zone, a narrow coastal stretch between Dakar and Saint-Louis that has supplied the bulk of Senegal's horticultural products for several decades. A multidisciplinary team of researchers and technicians conducted an in-depth study of the production systems, land tenure problems, interactions between horticulture and cattle rearing, environmental disruptions, and strategies used by the different stakeholders. The research sheds light over the fragility of peri-urban agriculture. Its authors show how it is competing against a fast-developing housing sector that is taking over more arable land every day thus causing severe environmental damage and undermining current production systems. ER -