Governance in urban and peri-urban vegetable farming in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Nchanji, Eileen Bogweh; Bellwood-Howard, Imogen

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.01.011

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“…Lastly, the predecessor of Act 925, the Local Government Act 426 (1993), was questioned by several authors (see Nchanji et al, 2017;Bellwood-Howard et al, 2018;Nchanji, 2018) for discouraging urban agriculture as it prohibited farming without due permission within settlements of over 5,000 inhabitants. Act 925 has, however, not introduced any changes in this regard.…”

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Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Merino¹,

Gajjar²,

Subedi³

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa face the daunting task of high urban growth and potentially devastating impacts of climate change across local communities and the economy. Urban and peri-urban food production can be among nature-based strategies planned for improving urban food security, reducing emissions, and climate adaptation. Co-operative governance, strategic planning, and accountable institutions are needed to support urban agriculture (UA), in the face of climate risks, unplanned urban development, the gendered nature of food provision, and the inability of urban farmers to self-organize toward optimal market and land access outcomes. Using a case study approach guided by qualitative content analysis with information derived from web analysis, we apply the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework to analyze underlying governance factors for UA in three selected Sub-Saharan African cities. Our three case cities of Kampala, Tamale and Cape Town reveal that UA is beginning to receive policy attention toward food security, and recognition for generating environmental, ecological, health, and human well-being benefits. Literature from specific cities however does not yet signal a local awareness and policy thrust regarding the associated and pertinent climate adaptation benefits of urban agriculture. We therefore recommend trans-disciplinary, locally-led, planning-based, and multi-sectoral approaches, involving a range of stakeholders toward recognizing and achieving the climate adaptation, environmental (ecologically restorative) and food security benefits of pursuing urban agriculture. This signals a larger role for the practice in sustainability discourse and SDGs 2 and 11, scaling out and up across large, medium and small towns, and cities of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Merino¹,

Gajjar²,

Subedi³

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…However, even better-off farmers face problems in securing access to water sources and may eventually have to diversify their water sources [36,39,45,53] and adjust their production patterns to the incremental loss of open space and grazing areas [55]. Wealthier farmers may respond to emerging water conflicts through periurban transformations by moving their farmland location or farming on previously unused land [56]. This can result in a cut-throat competition for arable land in peripheral areas of the urban fringe.…”

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“…These current developments in periurban agriculture are mainly judged as unsustainable transformations [42,46]. A transformation to sustainability needs to take into account the multiple tasks periurban agriculture can fulfil, including its contribution to food security, energy delivery and the preservation of natural resources and the provision of ecosystem services [31,33,38,56]. Periurban governance has to take into account the complexity of periurban structures, actor constellations and processes [40,47].…”

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“…Farmers using wastewater have a significantly higher risk of gastroenteric diseases and intoxication [78,82], while others highlight the possibility of safe use of wastewater, if it follows prescribed, e.g., the WHO guidelines on the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater [69,83]. In some areas wastewater irrigation had an impact on crop quality resulting in a reduction in market prices, inter alia due to the consumers' concerns about potential health risks from these vegetables [56,64,67,70]. Regarding this wastewater irrigation is also seen critically, and only picked up by marginal farmers who lack alternatives [84].…”

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Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

Butsch

Heinkel

2020

Water

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Urban sprawl and population increase are fundamentally transforming periurban areas in the Global South. These areas often suffer from inadequate environmental planning, resulting in water sources being overexploited, degraded, and redistributed. These processes affect water-based livelihoods due to disadvantages in water access and inadequate water governance. On the positive side, these transformation processes are leading to alternative water-based livelihoods. We systematically review and critically comment on the literature on water-based livelihoods in periurban areas of the Global South to provide the current scientific knowledge on this topic. Transformations of water-based livelihoods in periurban areas were also evaluated in terms of their sustainability. We conclude that rapid developments of periurban areas contain threats and potentials for water-based livelihoods and some emerging water-based livelihoods, whereas some emerging water-based livelihoods provide interim solutions for institutional supply gaps. Major lacunae in research are the (1) lack of holistic approaches, which address social dimensions of transformations, (2) the lack of studies applying a differentiated perspective on neighbouring areas within the urban fringe and (3) a lack of knowledge on emerging (water-based) livelihoods.

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“…Much of the food systems planning scholarship to date has focused on regulatory obstacles to urban agriculture, such as nuisance ordinances and zoning requirements or the availability of vacant land for cultivation (Mendes et al, 2008;Thibert, 2012;Huang and Drescher, 2015). Importantly, however, some aspects of the governance literature alluded to above are slowly making their way into the urban agriculture literature (Rosol, 2010;Campbell, 2016;Reynolds and Cohen, 2016;Nchanji and Bellwood-Howard, 2018;Manganelli and Moulaert, 2019;Prové et al, 2019). Recent work, moreover, suggests the need to highlight questions of governance at a time when urban agriculture is becoming more formalized and institutionalized through sustainability planning efforts (Mansfield and Mendes, 2013;Moragues-Faus and Morgan, 2015;Horst et al, 2017;Hammelman, 2019).…”

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GOVERNING URBAN AGRICULTURE: Formalization, Resistance and Re‐visioning in Two ‘Green’ Cities

McClintock¹,

Miewald²,

McCann³

2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Making, and Sustainability'. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. We are grateful to Amy Coplen for her assistance with the interview transcriptions and coding, to the IJURR handling editor and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, and to those we interviewed for taking time out of their busy schedules to speak with us.

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Governance in urban and peri-urban vegetable farming in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Resilient Governance Regimes That Support Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Cities: Learning From Local Challenges

Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

GOVERNING URBAN AGRICULTURE: Formalization, Resistance and Re‐visioning in Two ‘Green’ Cities

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