The Role of Urban Agriculture in Household Wellbeing: Case Study of Community-Based Urban Agriculture in Ndola, Zambia

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Result on the web

<a href="http://def-journal.eu/index.php/def/article/view/33" target="_blank" >http://def-journal.eu/index.php/def/article/view/33</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Role of Urban Agriculture in Household Wellbeing: Case Study of Community-Based Urban Agriculture in Ndola, Zambia

Original language description

This paper investigates the role of community-based urban agriculture in household well-being in Ndola, Zambia. Although urban agriculture has attracted the attention of various scholars in recent years, there are relatively few studies from the region of Southern Africa. The research confirms the positive influence of urban agriculture on household wellbeing. Farmers appreciate that agriculture-based activities are a promising option for sustaining their livelihoods, in terms of food intake and income generation. Moreover a spillover effect occurs due to the ability of farmers to provide small job opportunities for people living in their neighbourhood. On the other hand, farmers face various constraints in the form of limited access to food markets, crops marketed via middlemen, low diversity of planted crops and low levels of savings. Better organization of farmers and legal recognition of their cooperative may help to tackle these problems.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GA - Agricultural economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Development, Environment and Foresight

ISSN

2336-6613

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

80-90

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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