GEOG 3050 Chapter Notes -Urban Agriculture, Food Security, Opportunity Cost
23 Apr 2013
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Urban agriculture, poverty, and food security: empiracle evidence from a sample of developing countries. Urban agriculture (ua) is defined as the production of crop and livestock goods within cities and towns. 200 million people are employed in urban farming, they contribute to the food supply of 800 million urban dwellers. Ua can potentially play an important role in addressing urban food insecurity concerns, however understanding the nature of food insecurity and the implications of ua is hindered by a lack of data. The paper sets out to address to basic research questions: Is there any evidence of any significant relationship between urban. Agriculture on household food securities, dietary diversity and calorie intake. There are two main problems with the dataset: The comparability of the definition of rural and urban across developing countries. There is information on where household resides, not necessarily on where their agricultural production takes place.
