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La Organización de las Naciones Unidas predice que en los próximos 25 años casi todo el crecimiento poblacional tendrá lugar en las ciudades del mundo en desarrollo. Al ritmo actual, se espera que para el año 2030 un 60% del total de la población mundial viva en ciudades, crecimiento que viene aparejado con el aumento de los pobres en la ciudad y por ende el desempleo, el hambre y la desnutrición. El escaso dinero que los pobres logren traer a casa será para comprar comida y mantenerse vivos. Cualquier alimento que puedan obtener gratis es beneficio extra, por eso que cada vez hay más personas

Urban agriculture --- Sustainable development --- Urban farming --- Agriculture --- Land use, Urban

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The core activities of urban agriculture are involved with producing, processing, marketing, distributing, and consuming food. Urban agriculture also provides services and outcomes through transforming neglected or damaged landscapes, lives, and livelihoods. This book focuses on the so-called 'ancillary benefits' of urban agriculture in terms of healing economies, connections, aesthetics, heritage, and sites and societies - in short, what might be referred to in an holistic sense as the emerging paradigm of 'agrourbanism'. More than seventy case studies from around the world are reviewed through the social-ecological lens of regenerative landscape design. Many of these cases have never before been discussed in the literature. Topics examined include entrepreneurship, gastro-tourism, food literacy, foodscaping, heritage, and social and societal wellbeing. The methodological approach undertaken is layered-narrative scholarship based on the phenomenology of experiencing landscapes, and is facilitated through a linked website containing photo-essays documenting the site visits.Robert L. France is a world-renowned scientist in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, where he teaches courses on urban agriculture, ecohydrology, watershed management, conservation biology, and environmental restoration. For more than a decade he taught and conducted research on landscape architecture, land-use planning, and urban design at the Harvard Design School. Dr. France is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than two hundred journal articles on a wide range of environmental subjects, which together have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. In 2010, he organized the first international academic conference on urban agriculture in Canada, which led to the publication of the edited volume Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. His previous book with Wageningen Academic Publishers is about the pre-plastic environmental history of fishery bycatch: Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent.

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Urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has gained momentum in recent years in terms of research and policy, as well as in practical terms. The paradox of accelerated urbanisation and the increase in urban agriculture in developing countries is widely recognised. More than ever before, urban residents all over the developing world are cultivating urban plots and/or keeping animals to sustain their livelihoods. This volume looks at urban farming in the Kenyan town of Nakuru and is based on surveys and in-depth studies carried out by various researchers, including Kenyan Masters students. It considers farming techniques, the socio-economic aspects of urban farming and the environmental issues involved, and there is also a chapter on school farming. Specific attention is paid to urban farming in relation to poverty, with the conclusion being that those who depend on urban agriculture the most are, in fact, benefiting the least from it.

Sociology of environment --- Income --- Economic geography --- Kenya --- Urban agriculture --- Urban farming --- Agriculture --- Land use, Urban --- Urban agriculture.

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Les Nations Unies estiment qu'au cours des 25 prochaines années, la quasi-totalité de la croissance démographique se produira dans les villes des pays en développement. Si la tendance actuelle se maintient, 60 % de la population de la planète vivra en milieu urbain d'ici à 2030. Plus les villes grossissent, plus leur population pauvre grossit, elle aussi. Le chômage, la faim et la malnutrition sont monnaie courante. Dans la grande ville, où la plus grande partie du revenu sert à s'alimenter pour survivre, pouvoir se procurer des aliments sans devoir les acheter représente un atout. C'est pourq

Urban agriculture --- Sustainable development --- Agriculture urbaine --- Développement durable --- Urban farming --- Agriculture --- Land use, Urban --- City planning --- Urbanization