UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities
Food security in West Africa not only depends on productivity increases in marginal rural areas, but also on enhanced use of intensively farmed agricultural “niche” lands such as the urban and peri-urban spaces. They are characterised by easy market access and input availability which allows self-re...
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| author | Buerkert, Andreas Marschner, B. Steiner, C. Schlecht, Eva Wichern, M. Schareika, N. Lowenstein, W. Drescher, A.W. Glaser, R. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana Gnankambary, Z. Drechsel, Pay Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. |
| author_browse | Buerkert, Andreas Drechsel, Pay Drescher, A.W. Glaser, R. Gnankambary, Z. Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana Lowenstein, W. Marschner, B. Schareika, N. Schlecht, Eva Steiner, C. Wichern, M. |
| author_facet | Buerkert, Andreas Marschner, B. Steiner, C. Schlecht, Eva Wichern, M. Schareika, N. Lowenstein, W. Drescher, A.W. Glaser, R. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana Gnankambary, Z. Drechsel, Pay Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. |
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| description | Food security in West Africa not only depends on productivity increases in marginal rural areas, but also on enhanced use of intensively farmed agricultural “niche” lands such as the urban and peri-urban spaces. They are characterised by easy market access and input availability which allows self-reinforcing processes of agricultural intensification. However, too little is known about resource use efficiencies, matter flows and negative externalities in these systems. Starting from general assessments (status quo analyses), the African-German UrbanFoodPlus (UFP) network develops and tests site-specific, farmer-tailored innovations. These directly address the above mentioned knowledge gaps in the fourWest African cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tamale (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), and Bamenda (Cameroon). At all locations farmers attempt to cope with increasing land pressure by cultivating along electrical power lines, on public property, and on undeveloped private land. |
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| spelling | CGSpace684632025-11-07T08:32:17Z UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities Buerkert, Andreas Marschner, B. Steiner, C. Schlecht, Eva Wichern, M. Schareika, N. Lowenstein, W. Drescher, A.W. Glaser, R. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana Gnankambary, Z. Drechsel, Pay Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. urban agriculture periurban agriculture irrigation food security nutrients international cooperation partnerships resource evaluation farmers soil fertility organic fertilizers inorganic fertilizers Food security in West Africa not only depends on productivity increases in marginal rural areas, but also on enhanced use of intensively farmed agricultural “niche” lands such as the urban and peri-urban spaces. They are characterised by easy market access and input availability which allows self-reinforcing processes of agricultural intensification. However, too little is known about resource use efficiencies, matter flows and negative externalities in these systems. Starting from general assessments (status quo analyses), the African-German UrbanFoodPlus (UFP) network develops and tests site-specific, farmer-tailored innovations. These directly address the above mentioned knowledge gaps in the fourWest African cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tamale (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), and Bamenda (Cameroon). At all locations farmers attempt to cope with increasing land pressure by cultivating along electrical power lines, on public property, and on undeveloped private land. 2015 2015-10-08T05:28:33Z 2015-10-08T05:28:33Z Conference Paper Abstract https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68463 en Limited Access application/pdf Buerkert, A.; Marschner, B.; Steiner, C.; Schlecht, E.; Wichern, M.; Schareika, N.; Lowenstein, W.; Drescher, A. W.; Glaser, R.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Gnankambary, Z.; Drechsel, Pay; Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. 2015. UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security inWest African cities [Abstract only] In Tielkes, E. (Ed.). Management of land use systems for enhanced food security: conflicts, controversies and resolutions. Book of abstracts. International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2015, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2015. Witzenhausen, Germany: German Institute for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics. pp.350-351. |
| spellingShingle | urban agriculture periurban agriculture irrigation food security nutrients international cooperation partnerships resource evaluation farmers soil fertility organic fertilizers inorganic fertilizers Buerkert, Andreas Marschner, B. Steiner, C. Schlecht, Eva Wichern, M. Schareika, N. Lowenstein, W. Drescher, A.W. Glaser, R. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Gordana Gnankambary, Z. Drechsel, Pay Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities |
| title | UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities |
| title_full | UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities |
| title_fullStr | UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities |
| title_short | UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities |
| title_sort | urbanfoodplus african german partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri urban agriculture for improved food security in west african cities |
| topic | urban agriculture periurban agriculture irrigation food security nutrients international cooperation partnerships resource evaluation farmers soil fertility organic fertilizers inorganic fertilizers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68463 |
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