Formal sector workers’ participation in urban agriculture in Ghana: perspectives from the Wa Municipality

Abstract

This paper assesses the participation of formal sector employees in urban agriculture and their contributions to food supply in the Wa Municipality, north-western Ghana. A cross-sectional research design was employed with survey as the data collection method. Respondents were randomly selected from various public sector agencies within the Municipality. Logistic regression was employed to identify the factors influencing participation in agriculture. The findings revealed that majority (62.1%) of the respondents were not participating in agriculture. Respondents who participate in urban agriculture practice food crop farming or animal rearing or both. The probability of a formal sector worker participating in agriculture is influenced by sex, age, education, household size, finance and formal workload. Participation in agriculture contributes to household food supply through physical availability of food, income earning and savings. Providing formal sector workers with information about the significance of urban agriculture could be a way of encouraging their participation.

Backyard Agricultural and Farm Activity as an Option of Socioeconomic and Food Improvement in the Rural Towns of the Municipality of Guasave, Sinaloa

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“…Keterbatasan jumlah tenaga penyuluh pertanian memunculkan permasalahan lain yaitu masih belum dirasakannya kinerja penyuluh dalam menjamin harapan dan kebutuhan oleh sebagian petani (Moyo and Salawu, 2018;Bolang and Osumanu, 2019;Makate et al, 2019 3Keterangan : i = Rata-rata total tingkat kinerja i = Rata-rata total tingkat kepentingan n = Jumlah responden Diagram kartesius akan menggambarkan empat bagian kuadran yang dibatasi dua garis yang berpotongan tegak lurus pada titik (X,Y). Titik X sebagai titik skor rata-rata tingkat kinerja seluruh atribut sedangkan titik Y sebagai titik skor rata-rata tingkat kepentingan seluruh atribut.…”

Agricultura urbana: desenvolvimento de um protótipo para o cultivo de hortaliças em ambiente residencial

“…Apesar de ser um tema em ascensão, sua origem é de meados da década de 1970, quando a sociedade começou a perceber os riscos indiretos que a globalização produziria a longo prazo (DEELSTRA et al, 2000). A literatura apresenta relatos de agricultura urbana em uma diversidade de países, como México P a g e | 653 Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciências Ambientais v.12 -n.3  Mar 2021 (DIELEMAN, 2017), Colômbia (FEOLA et al, 2019), Holanda (WIELEMAKER et al, 2019 e Gana (BOLANG et al, 2019) dentre outros.…”