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UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities

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Title UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities
 
Creator Buerkert, Andreas
Marschner, B.
Steiner, C.
Schlecht, Eva
Wichern, M.
Schareika, N.
Lowenstein, W.
Drescher, A.W.
Glaser, R.
Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana
Gnankambary, Z.
Drechsel, Pay
Jean-Pascal Lompo, D.
 
Subject urban agriculture
periurban agriculture
irrigation
food security
nutrients
international cooperation
partnerships
resource evaluation
farmers
soil fertility
organic fertilizers
inorganic fertilizers
 
Description Food security in West Africa not only depends on productivity increases in marginal rural areas, but also on enhanced use of intensively farmed agricultural “niche” lands such as the urban and peri-urban spaces. They are characterised by easy market access and input availability which allows self-reinforcing processes of agricultural intensification. However, too little is known about resource use efficiencies, matter flows and negative externalities in these systems. Starting from general assessments (status quo analyses), the African-German UrbanFoodPlus (UFP) network develops and tests site-specific, farmer-tailored innovations. These directly address the above mentioned knowledge gaps in the fourWest African cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tamale (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), and Bamenda (Cameroon). At all locations farmers attempt to cope with increasing land pressure by cultivating along electrical power lines, on public property, and on undeveloped private land.
 
Date 2015
2015-10-08T05:28:33Z
2015-10-08T05:28:33Z
 
Type Conference Paper Abstract
 
Identifier Buerkert, A.; Marschner, B.; Steiner, C.; Schlecht, E.; Wichern, M.; Schareika, N.; Lowenstein, W.; Drescher, A. W.; Glaser, R.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Gnankambary, Z.; Drechsel, Pay; Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. 2015. UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security inWest African cities [Abstract only] In Tielkes, E. (Ed.). Management of land use systems for enhanced food security: conflicts, controversies and resolutions. Book of abstracts. International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2015, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2015. Witzenhausen, Germany: German Institute for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics. pp.350-351.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68463
Recovering and Reusing Resources in Urbanized Ecosystems
 
Language en
 
Rights Limited Access
 
Format p. 350-351
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