Urban agriculture: addressing practical and strategic gender needsстатья из журнала
Аннотация: Abstract This paper considers the role of urban agriculture in addressing the practical and strategic needs of African women, and assesses the gender implications of embracing urban agriculture as a development intervention strategy. Empirical evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe points to the multi-faceted role of urban agriculture whereby some women use this activity to support their households on a daily basis, and others use it as an avenue for social and economic empowerment over the longer term. In order to benefit rather than burden women, the promotion and support of urban agriculture must take on an emancipatory agenda, which supports individual, practical and strategic goals, and ultimately challenges the structural conditions that give rise to women's involvement in the activity in the first place. Acknowledgements The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) provided financial support for my research in Zimbabwe through the Young Canadian Researcher Award. The National Science Foundation (USA) AgroPolis Award for Urban Agriculture Research from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (Canada), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded my research in Botswana. Thank you to the Government of Botswana and Department of Environmental Science at the University of Botswana for institutional and academic support. Thanks also to Robin Roth and an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments on this paper. Notes 1. These include Resource Centre for Urban Agriculture and Forestry, International Development Research Centre (e.g. Cities Feeding People Program Initiative, AgroPolis), FAO (e.g. Food for Cities Programme), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (e.g. Strategic Initiative on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture), UNDP/Habitat (e.g. Urban Management Programme), WHO (e.g. Healthy Cities Programme), and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (e.g. Local Environment Initiatives Agenda 21). 2. All names have been changed to ensure anonymity. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlice J. Hovorka Alice J. Hovorka is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Год издания: 2006
Авторы: Alice J. Hovorka
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Development in Practice
Ключевые слова: Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Urban and Rural Development Challenges
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Том: 16
Выпуск: 1
Страницы: 51–61