Community-Based Wastewater Farming and its Contribution to Livelihoods of the Urban Poor: Case of Nairobi, Kenya

No current and reliable estimates of the number of people participating in urban agriculture exist; how­ever, Smit and Nasr roughly estimated the number to be about 800 million (Smit, Ratta, & Nasr, 1996). Other estimates predict that in 2020, 35 to 40 million urban residents of Africa will dep...

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Main Authors: Mary Njenga, Nancy Karanja, Gordon Prain, Kuria Gathuru, Diana Lee-Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
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Online Access:https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/46