Agriculture in urban planning :  generating livelihoods and food security / 
edited by Mark Redwood. 
 - Sterling, VA :  Earthscan,  2009. 
 - xviii, 248 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Household food security among urban farmers in Nairobi, Kenya / Eunice Wambui Njogu -- Urban compost: a socio-economic and agronomic evaluation in Kumasi, Ghana / Nikita S. Eriksen-Hamel and George Danso -- Urban agriculture as a livelihood strategy in Lima, Peru / Luis Maldonado Villavicencio -- The social and economic implications of urban agriculture on food security in Harare, Zimbabwe / Charity Mutonodzo -- Urban agriculture and food security in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi / David Dalison Mkwambisi -- An analysis of the quality of wastewater used to irrigate vegetables in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale (Ghana) / Philip Amoah -- Water contamination and its impact on vegetable production in the Rímac River, Peru / Henry Juarez -- Wastewater use and urban agriculture in kinshasa, DR Congo / Kifuani Kia Mayeko -- The health impacts of farming on producers in Rosario, Argentina / Patricia Silvia Propersi -- Using participatory education and action research for health risk reduction amongst farmers in Dakar, Senegal / Nita Chaudhuri -- Complex ecologies and city spaces: social-ecological networks of urban agriculture / Laura J. Shillington -- Urban agriculture and physical planning: a case study of Zaria, Nigeria / Chuo Adamu Nsangu. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781844076680 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008023954 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Urban agriculture--Developing countries.<br/>Sustainable development--Developing countries.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>S494.5.U72  / A42 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>630.91732