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Urban agriculture (UA) is wrongly considered an oxymoron. Despite its critical role in producing food for city
dwellers around the world, urban food production has largely been ignored by scholars and agricultural planners;
government officials and policymakers at best dismiss the activity as peripheral and at worst burn crops and evict
farmers, claiming that urban farms are not only unsightly but also promote pollution and illness. Contradicting this
image, recent studies document the commercial value of food produced in the urban area while underscoring the
importance of urban farming as a survival strategy among the urban poor, especially women heads of households.
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), with its enviable perspicacity, became the first major
international agency to recognize the importance of urban food production. In 1983, the urban section of IDRC under
Yue-man Yeung funded a study of six urban centres in Kenya to be carried out by the Mazingira Institute of Nairobi.
Additional studies and scholars have been supported over the last decade until the weight of reports and awareness of
problems with urban food security has at last brought the issue to the forefront of IDRC s agenda. In the spring of
1993, IDRC organized two events designed to propel this policy concern to a wider audience
IDRC - Organizational Body
1st Edition
Cities Feeding Peopl
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Cities Feeding People
Management
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The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
1994
Canada
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