Women Feeding Cities
Mainstreaming Gender in Urban Agriculture and Food Security

Edited by Alice Hovorka ,  Henk De Zeeuw ,  Mary Njenga
Paper: 978 1 85339 685 4
Price: $39.95
Published: April 2009 

Publisher: Practical Action
408 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"
figures, tables & photos
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.

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—Noemí Soto, Gunther Merzthal, Maribel Ordoñez 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 Touré; 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.


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