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The choice of crop species, varieties and their likely performance For both genders, the growth of vegetables on allotments is controlled by the desire to grow pota­toes. There is a key requirement to avoid repeated growth of potatoes on the same ground each year, to avoid the build up of two major pest species of […]

The design of an allotment plot needs to take account of its intended purpose: therapeutical, hobby or recreational, commercial, self-consump­tion, or mixed purpose. Allotment gardening is one of the most popular leisure or hobby pursuits in Britain (Crouch and Ward, 1988; Garnett, 1996a). Indeed, allotment management is considered by many people as a leisure activity […]

Allotment sites vary in terms of their size, services and facilities provided. The average size of the allot­ment is ten rods or 300 square yards (250 m2) (Crouch and Ward, 1988; Perez-Vazquez, 2000). This plot size was originally set by law, to meet the needs of households and not for trade or other busi­nesses (Blackburn, […]

H. F. Cook, H. C. Lee and A. Perez-Vazquez In Britain, the allotment garden has long been a part of working-class culture, and the practice has sur­vived the widespread availability of cheap food, post Second World War. Today, urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in Britain continues to be useful as a means of supplying some […]

Andre Viljoen and Katrin Bohn Figure 19.1 (photo of Moulsecoomb) shows an allotment site in Moulsecoomb, a suburb on the edge of Brighton, on the south coast of England. The site, on a south facing slope is small, having nine stan­dard allotment plots, with an area of 250 m2 each, and an overall site area […]

The rise of urban agriculture as a component of development policy has been noted above. This is associated with poverty alleviation projects and has drawn in all key international development agents although few are at present clear as to how urban agriculture can be turned into a viable development programme. In Tanzania, GTZ has supported […]

Although the scholarly work shows that urban agriculture or the growing of food in urban and Figure 18.3 peri-urban areas (UPA) is not new in Africa (Freeman, 1991; Mbiba, 1995; Grossman et al., 1999; Rogerson, 2001), the phenomenon is now different and requires our attention in several respects. Firstly, since the collapse of formal urban […]

In terms of countries, although Zambia had an early start, it was soon overtaken by Kenya (1980s) and subsequently Tanzania (early 1990s) and Zimbabwe (mid to late 1990s). As noted above, Zambia’s research was dominated by foreign researchers compared to Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa where a crop of local researchers competed for research […]

Dr Beacon Mbiba This chapter seeks to identify key aspects of the research record on urban and peri-urban agriculture in Southern and East Africa using a bibliography compiled by Obudho and Foeken (1999) as the start­ing point and main data base. The dominant status of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in East and Southern Africa […]

We were interested to find out if organic production was seen as an integral feature of urban agriculture. Our research revealed that many biological control methods were also proving to be effectively employed on many of the agriculture sites. For example banana stems are grown on many of the urban agricultural plots. Once cut and […]