Status Report on Urban Gardening in Africa Released by FAO
September 5, 2012| |
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released its first status report on urban gardening in Africa. Urban gardening in Africa is the urban and peri-urban horticulture project in the region where Africa's households, schools, communities and market gardens produce fruits and vegetables in and around the continent's cities.
The publication, titled Growing Greener Cities in Africa particularly emphasizes the future of market gardening - the irrigated, commercial production of fruit and vegetables in designated or other urban areas. It further urges national governments and city administrations to work together with growers, processors, suppliers, vendors and others to give market gardens and urban and peri-urban agriculture the political, logistical and educational support necessary for sustainable development.
For more information, visit http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/154241/icode/. To download the report, go to http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/greenercities/pdf/GGC-Africa.pdf.
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