Agropolis—The Social, Political And Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture

Canada's International Development Centre, of which editor Mougeot is a senior program specialist, established the small-grant facility AGROPOLIS with the objective of encouraging and disseminating graduate research that aims to heighten the quality and impact of Southern urban agriculture expertise. This book presents the first results of the program in the form of ten case studies considering the role of urban agriculture in sustainable development. Specific topics include migration and food security in Namibia; the pest-control system in the market gardens of Lome, Togo; determinants of urban livestock adoption in Khorogo, Cote d'Ivoire; gender dimensions of urban open-space cultivation in Harare, Zimbabwe; agri-urban development from a land-use planning perspective in France and Tunisia; and the assessment of benefits from allotments as a component of urban agriculture in England. Also included is a chapter on neglected issues on form and substance of research on urban agriculture. Distributed in the US by Stylus. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Luc J A Mougeot is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), where he initiated the Cities Feeding People initiative in 1997.