Women Feeding Cities

by Hovorka, Alice; Zeeuw, Henk De; Njenga, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781853396854
• ISBN10: 1853396850
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-31
• Publisher: Practical Action Pub

Summary

Poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition have become critical urban problems. Meeting this challenge, in many cities around the world, women play a crucial role in household food production, growing vegetables in gardens and vacant urban spaces, raising animals, and trading in fresh and cooked foods. They boost household nutrition as well as generating income and building social inclusion among the urban poor. Women's vital contribution, however, has largely been neglected by city officials, economic planners and development practitioners, who have tended to concentrate on the industrialization of food production. Women Feeding Cities analyzes the roles of women and men in urban food production, and through case studies from three developing regions suggests how women's contribution might be maximized. In the second part, detailed guidelines and tools show how to bring women into the mainstream of urban agriculture research and development. Providing evidence from around the world as well as field-tested guidelines, this book is essential reading for policy makers, planners, researchers and practitioners working on urban agriculture programs. This book arises from the Urban Harvest Initiative (CGIAR) and the Cities Farming for the Future programme (RUAF Foundation) and was made possible thanks to a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.

Author Biography

Alice Hovorka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Henk de Zeeuw is the Director of the RUAF Foundation (International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security). Mary Njenga is a Researcher with Urban Harvest, the CGIAR system-wide Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture, convened by the International Potato Centre.

Table of Contents

Tables	p. vii
Boxes	p. x
Figures	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acronyms and abbreviations	p. xvii
Gender in urban agriculture: an introduction	p. 1
Why Women Feeding Cities?	p. 1
Urban agriculture	p. 4
Gender in urban agriculture - an analytical approach	p. 11
Women feeding cities - key gender issues	p. 13
Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture efforts	p. 26
References	p. 30
Case Studies
Gender dimensions of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Hyderabad, India	p. 35
Gender in jasmine flower-garland livelihoods in peri-urban Metro Manila, Philippines	p. 51
Gender and urban agriculture: the case of Accra, Ghana	p. 65
Gender in urban food production in hazardous areas in Kampala, Uganda	p. 79
Gender dynamics in the Musikavanhu urban agriculture movement, Harare, Zimbabwe	p. 93
Key gender issues in urban livestock keeping and food security in Kisumu, Kenya	p. 105
Urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, and gender in Villa María del Triunfo, Peru	p. 123
Gender perspectives in organic waste recycling for urban agriculture in Nairobi, Kenya	p. 141
Urban agriculture as a strategy to promote equality of opportunities and rights for men and women in Rosario, Argentina	p. 157
The role of women-led micro-farming activities in combating HIV/AIDS in Nakuru, Kenya	p. 167
Gender dynamics of fruit and vegetable production and processing in peri-urban Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico	p. 181
Urban agriculture and gender in Carapongo, Lima, Peru	p. 199
Gender and urban agriculture in Pikine, Senegal Gora Gaye and Mamadou Ndong Touré	p. 219
Guidelines for Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Agriculture Research and Development Projects
Incorporating gender in urban agriculture projects	p. 237
The urban agriculture project cycle	p. 237
Diagnostic research	p. 241
Project design	p. 252
Activity planning	p. 256
Implementation	p. 258
Monitoring and evaluation	p. 262
Going to scale	p. 266
References	p. 272
Beyond the project cycle: institutionalizing gender mainstreaming	p. 275
Institutionalizing gender mainstreaming	p. 275
Gender mainstreaming in the RUAF network	p. 277
Gender mainstreaming in CIP-Urban Harvest	p. 283
References	p. 288
Tool box for gender-sensitive urban agriculture projects	p. 289
Introduction	p. 289
Main diagnostic research methods	p. 289
Diagnostic tools	p. 295
Design tools	p. 310
Activity-planning tools	p. 319
Implementation tools	p. 323
Monitoring and evaluation tools	p. 331
Going to scale (planning follow-up actions, dissemination, policy influencing)	p. 331
References	p. 336
Resources	p. 339
Annotated bibliography	p. 339
Websites	p. 368
List of contributors	p. 371
Index	p. 379
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