Africa: Backyard farming key to food security in cities
Revising regulations to increase backyard gardening in cities could be key to sustaining food production in Sub-Saharan Africa, an expert says.
By: Francis Kokutse
SciDevNet
This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.
May 20, 2019
Excerpt:
As the Sustainable Development Goal 11 calls for countries to sustain urbanisation by 2030, a study published in the May issue of Land Use Policy journal suggests that promoting agriculture in cities and their surrounding areas is a must to boost food security.
“City authorities should consider exercising the right of acquiring land from the private sector and zoning them for urban agricultural purposes,” says Owusu Amponsah, the expert and a co-author of the study. “This is particularly important because of the hybrid and fragmented nature of the land tenure system in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Amponsah, who is a senior lecturer at the Department of Planning of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, tells SciDev.Net that the study was conducted to identify secure sources of land for agriculture within urban areas and their peripheries following reports by Ghanaian farmers that they were either being threatened or evicted from their farms by institutional heads.
“The phenomenon undermines the sustainability of cities at a time that the clarion call for the sustainability of cities across the globe has been louder,” Amponsah adds.
The researchers conducted a systematic review of 81 publications on urban agriculture published in English and indexed in databases such as Scopus and PubMed.
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