Alice Hovorka

Women Feeding Cities: Mainstreaming Gender in Urban Agriculture and Food Security Alice Hovorka

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Commendation Quotes: 'One of the key findings of the recent International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development was that strengthening and redirecting AKST to address gender issues will advance progress toward achievement of sustainability and development goals. Women Feeding Cities contributes signifi cant new information and insight into practice about a relatively neglected opportunity to act on this finding. A climate-changing world demands that we seek every means possible to increase the resilience of food systems and livelihoods if urban civilization is to survive - this collection of experiences shows that there is much that can be done to increase resilience, even in what at first glance might seem unpromising circumstances.' Janice Jiggins, Professor and guest researcher, Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen University Research, Netherlands. Table of Contents: Tables; Boxes; figures; Preface; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1) Gender in Urban Agriculture: An Introduction; PART I: CASE STUDIES 2) Gender Dimensions of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Hyderabad, India Gayathri Devi and Stephanie Buechler; 3) Gender in Jasmine Flower-Garland Livelihoods in Peri-Urban Metro Manila, Philippines Paul Boncodin, Arma Bertuso, Jaime Gallentes, Dindo Camplian, Rehan Abeyratne and Helen Dayo; 4) Gender and Urban Agriculture: The Case of Accra, Ghana Lesley Hope, Olufunke Cofie, Bernard Keraita and Pay Dreschsel; 5) Gender in Urban Food Production in Hazardous Areas in Kampala, Uganda Grace Nabulo, Juliet Kiguli and Lilian Kiguli; 6) Gender Dynamics in the Musikavanhu Urban Agriculture Movement, Harare, Zimbabwe Percy Toriro; 7) Key Gender Issues in Urban Livestock Keeping and Food Security in Kisumu, Kenya Zarina Ishani; 8) Urban Agriculture, Poverty Alleviation and Gender in Villa Maria del Triunfo, Lima, Peru Noemi Soto, Gunther Merzthal, Maribel Ordonez and Milagros Touzet; 9) Gender Perspectives in Organic Waste Recycling for Urban Agriculture in Nairobi, Kenya Kuria Gathuru, Mary Njenga, Nancy Karanja and Patrick Munyao; 10) Urban Agriculture as a Strategy to Promote Equality of Opportunities and Rights for Men and Women in Rosario, Argentina Mariana Ponce and Lucrecia Donoso; 11) the Role of Women-Led Micro-Farming Activities in Combating HIV/AIDS in Nakuru, Kenya Mry Njenga, Nancy Karanja, Kuria Gathuru, Samwel Mbugua, Naomi Fedha and Bernard Ngoda; 12) Gender Dynamics of Fruit and Vegetable Production and Processing in Peri-Urban Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico Stephanie Buechler; 13) Urban Agriculture and Gender in Carapongo, Lima, Peru Blanca Arce, Gordon Prian and Luis Maldonado; 14) Gender and Urban Agriculture in Pikine, Senegal Gora Gaye and Mamadou Ndong Toure; PART II: GUIDELINES FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN URBAN AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 15) Incorporating Gender in urban Agriculture Projects; 16) Beyond the Project cycle: Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming; 17) Tool Box for Gender-Sensitive Urban Agriculture Projects; 18) Resources; List of Contributors; Index."Publisher Marketing: 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 generate income and build 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." Contributor Bio:  Hovorka, Alice Alice Hovorka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Contributor Bio:  De Zeeuw, Henk Henk de Zeeuw is the Director of the RUAF Foundation (International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) and was the global coordinator of the Cities Farming for the Future Programme. He is also a senior adviser with ETC Urban Agriculture in the Netherlands. Contributor Bio:  Njenga, Mary 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.