household food production

Women in Urban and Peri urban-Agriculture: Sustaining Livelihoods in the Cape Metropolitan Area

Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) has emerged as one of the responses to multiple livelihood challenges that poorer city dwellers face. Urban women engage in UPA to produce food for their households and increasingly also to earn an income from the sale of surplus output. This article uses evidence from a sample of farming projects…

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