| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 159 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Illustrations""; ""PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF URBAN AGRICULTURE""; ""1 The Lure of the City""; ""2 Promises Unfulfilled: Life in the Urban Informal Sector""; ""3 Open Spaces and Colonial Views: The Early Years in Nairobi""; ""4 Open Space in the ""City Beautiful"": Nairobi as a Modern, Planned Capital""; ""PART TWO: KENYA'S URBAN FARMERS AND THEIR GARDENS""; ""5 Urban Food Production and Consumption in Six Kenyan Municipalities""; ""6 City Dwellers with Farming Backgrounds: Nairobi's Urban Cultivators"" |
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""7 Inner City Farmers and Suburban Cultivators: A Comparison""""8 Urban Farmland: Questions of Ownership""; ""9 The Role of Women Cultivators""; ""10 Maize, Beans, and What Else? Cultivation Practices of Nairobi's Urban Farmers""; ""11 Harsh Realities: Impediments and Problems of Urban Agriculture""; ""PART THREE: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE""; ""12 The Importance of Open-Space Farming to Urban Families""; ""13 The Importance of Urban Agriculture to the Community and the Nation""; ""Appendix I: The 1987 York�Kenyatta University Survey""; ""Appendix 2: Statistical Tables"" |
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""Glossary of Kiswahili Terms""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban agriculture -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
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Urban agriculture. |
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Kenya -- Nairobi. |
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Open spaces -- Kenya -- Nairobi.
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Open spaces. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freeman, Donald B. City of farmers. MontrØ̧eal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991 (DLC) 93109169 |
| ISBN |
9780773562806 (electronic book) |
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077356280X (electronic book) |
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0773508228 |
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9780773508224 |
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