Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: Transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation
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Date
2014
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Urban Climate
Abstract
A range of published and grey literature over the last three decades
has underlined the importance of urban and peri-urban agriculture
and forestry (UPAF) in cities of developing regions. The focus in the
published literature is on livelihoods, poverty reduction and ecosystems
services at multiple city scales. Cities of developing regions,
particularly in Africa, are searching for ways of addressing the
unavoidable impacts of climate change and UPAF has demonstrated
scalable adaptation and mitigation potential. However, evidence of
UPAF’s role in mitigating and adaptation to climate change is scattered
in various reports and has not been synthesized for its potential
role in developing urban adaptation strategies. Building on the earlier
poverty reduction focus of UPAF research, this paper contributes
to UPAF knowledge regarding mitigating and adapting to climate
change in urban and peri-urban areas in East and West Africa. The
paper reports a synthesis based on a systematic review of the available
literature on these regions, and selected sources on other parts
of sub-Saharan Africa. The paper also examines the extent to which
literature conveys any evidence for UPAF playing a role in mediating
the effects of climate/environmental change. Limited empirical verification
was undertaken in Kampala and Ibadan, but this does not
form the basis for systematic generalization. The key emerging areas
of adaptation and mitigation include enhanced food security, productive greening, ecosystem services and innovative policy for
urban resilience and transformation.
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Urban agriculture, Urban forestry, Climate Change, Adaptation, Mitigation, Urban Africa
Citation
Lwasa, S., Mugagga, F., Wahab, B., Simon, D., Connors, J., & Griffith, C. (2014). Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: Transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Urban Climate, 7, 92-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2013.10.007