Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Urban agriculture for sustainable development
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| Other authors / contributors: | International Development Research Centre (Canada)
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| ISBN: | 9781552502426
1552502422
9781552502266
1552502260
1552503283
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version.
Issued also in French under title: Cultiver de meilleures villes, agriculture urbaine et développement durable.
Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world's total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus. As a result, more and more people are attempting to grow at least some of their own food to supplement poor ...
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| Other form: | Print version: Mougeot, Luc J.A. Growing better cities. Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, ©2006 1552502260
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| Govt.docs classification: | E97-84/2006E-PDF
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