TY - BOOK ID - 77906796 TI - Growing better cities AU - Mougeot, Luc J. A AU - International Development Research Centre (Canada) PY - 2006 SN - 1280718285 9786610718283 1552502422 9781552502426 9781552502266 1552502260 1552503283 PB - Ottawa International Development Research Centre DB - UniCat KW - Urban agriculture KW - Sustainable development KW - Urban farming KW - Agriculture KW - Land use, Urban KW - City planning KW - Agricultural assistance, Canadian KW - Technical assistance, Canadian KW - Canadian technical assistance KW - Canadian agricultural assistance KW - Urban land use KW - Cities and towns KW - Urban economics KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - International Development Research Centre (Canada) KW - Canada. KW - IDRC KW - CIID KW - C.I.I.D. KW - I.D.R.C. KW - International Development Research Centre KW - Centre de recherches pour le développement international (Canada) KW - Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (Canada) KW - International Development Research Center (Canada) KW - C.R.D.I. KW - CRDI KW - Markaz al-Buḥūth lil-Tanmiyah al-Dawlīyah (Canada) KW - International Development Research Centre of Canada KW - Centro Internacional de Investigación para el Desarrollo (Canada) KW - CIID Canadá KW - International Development and Research Center (Canada) KW - Tỏ̂ chức nghiên cứu và phát triẻ̂n quó̂c té̂ của Canada KW - CRDI Canada KW - IDRC Canada KW - Kanadyn Olon Ulsyn Khȯgzhliĭn Sudalgaany Tȯv KW - Olon Ulsyn Khȯgzhliĭn Sudalgaany Tȯv (Canada) KW - Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (Canada) KW - Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (Canada) KW - IDRC-CRDI KW - Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo de Canadá KW - E-books KW - Centre de recherche pour le développement international (Canada) KW - Centre de recherche pour le développement international du Canada UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77906796 AB - 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 ER -