What can the arid agriculture movement learn from the success of urban agriculture?
One response to the desertification that climate change has engendered has been the rise of non-traditional agricultural clusters,such as urban agriculture.Urban agriculture has long been a fixture of the global agriculture market,where it is defined by Mougeot in1999 as “an industry located within(intra-urban)or on the fringe(peri-urban)of an urban center… which grows or raises,processes and distributes a diversity of food and non-food products,reusing and supplying local products and services.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO)estimates that 10%or more of Sub Saharan Africas urban population,or around 11 million people,are active in urban agriculture,providing about a fifth of the worlds food.
Nicola Kerslake Steve Wells Navin Twarakavi
Nevada Institute of Renewable Energy Commercialization Desert Research Institute
国际会议
The 11th International Conference on Development of Drylands(第十一届国际干旱区大会)
北京
英文
71-71
2013-03-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）