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Kenya: Cattle in the Capital - Urban Agriculture Comes to Town
allAfrica, 23 October 2012
Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn't take a detective to see that he is also a livestock farmer. The lowing of cattle greets visitors to his neatly… Read more »
Urban Farming Promises Nutritional Boost for Africa
As food prices spike, urban areas burgeon and crops fail, researchers have found promise in the most unlikely of places – cities. Experts have tapped urban agriculture as a promising solution to food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa.
Documents
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15 October 2012
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy
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- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Publisher:
- Convention on Biological Diversity
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The Cities and Biodiversity Outlook provides a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services. Combining ... see more »
InFocus
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The sprawling slum of Mukuru on the eastern edge of Kenya's capital is a world apart from the glassy skyscrapers towering over traffic-clogged city streets. Its estimated 700,000 ... Read more »
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A new report by World Vision and Save the Children has revealed that despite new strategies to tackle undernutrition, health spending falls far below the 15 percent commitment ... Read more »
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AllAfrica and the Institute of Development Studies have joined forces to produce a research-driven reporting series on the evidence-based innovations that hold potential to end ... Read more »
