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DOI | 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.09.026 |
The role of backyard farms in two West African urban landscapes | |
Bellwood-Howard, Imogen1; Shakya, Martina2; Korbeogo, Gabin3; Schlesinger, Johannes4 | |
2018-02-01 | |
发表期刊 | LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
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ISSN | 0169-2046 |
EISSN | 1872-6062 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 170页码:34-47 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; Burkina Faso |
英文摘要 | Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is a well-researched landscape component, but there is a need to extend the quantitative database on West Africa as well as to explain how UPA contributes to food systems differently across locations. We therefore performed a quantitative survey of Tamale, Ghana, and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, using a spatially randomised sampling frame to identify farms in peri-urban villages, open-space farming zones and isolated spaces. This was complemented with focus group discussion data. After preliminary analysis, further interviews were performed to explain trends observed. Rainy season production dominated in both cities. In Ouagadougou, commercial production was concentrated in open-space farming sites, whereas in Tamale it was more dispersed, with isolated space farms playing an unexpectedly important market role. This was attributed to Tamale's recent rapid expansion, combined with more relaxed planning implementation and a permissive legislative context. In both cities, leafy vegetables were important commercial crops. Irrigation and soil fertility management were areas where resource use efficiency could be improved. Untreated well water was a major irrigation source in Ouagadougou, as was potable water in Tamale, raising queries over sustainability. Inorganic fertiliser use was more common in Tamale than Ouagadougou, and the opposite was the case for compost and manure, ascribed to the existence of manure markets in Ouagadougou. Urban agriculture's contribution to urban food systems is thus shaped by its historical and geographical context. Attention to planning trajectories, irrigation and soil fertility management issues could help it contribute further. |
英文关键词 | Backyard farms Commercialisation Ouagadougou Tamale Urban agriculture |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000419412400005 |
WOS关键词 | AGRICULTURE |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Environmental Studies ; Geography ; Geography, Physical ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Urban Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography ; Physical Geography ; Public Administration ; Urban Studies |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/25131 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Georg August Univ Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany; 2.Ruhr Univ Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 3.Univ Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 4.Albert Ludwigs Univ Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bellwood-Howard, Imogen,Shakya, Martina,Korbeogo, Gabin,et al. The role of backyard farms in two West African urban landscapes[J]. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING,2018,170:34-47. |
APA | Bellwood-Howard, Imogen,Shakya, Martina,Korbeogo, Gabin,&Schlesinger, Johannes.(2018).The role of backyard farms in two West African urban landscapes.LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING,170,34-47. |
MLA | Bellwood-Howard, Imogen,et al."The role of backyard farms in two West African urban landscapes".LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 170(2018):34-47. |
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