Effects of Urban Agriculture on poverty reduction in Mombasa County, Kenya
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2016Author
Ogot, A.R.
Aboagye, L.M.
Opoku-Agyeman, M.O.
Otoo, E.
Acheremu, K.
Owusu, S.K.
Bulti, R.M.
Mbise, M.B.
Letsoalo, E.M.
Mollel, N.M.
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Urban Agriculture has served as a vital input in the livelihood strategies of urban households
in Mombasa, Kenya. Urban dwellers rely on the market for food but with the tremendous
surge in food prices beyond the reach of the majority of the population, poor urbanites have
resorted to intensifying urban agriculture as a coping strategy to meet their immediate food
requirements, and income generation. Data collection for this study involved structured
and semi structured household questionnaires administered to urban farming households,
field observations and key informant interviews. Information gathered included urban
farming practices, agricultural and sale of output, food sufficiency and socio-economic
characteristics, in the selected residential areas. The sample of 150 households engaged
in urban agriculture was randomly selected to participate in the survey. The households
sampled per residential area were as follows: Kisauni (50), Likoni (50) Changamwe (30)
and Mvita (20). Urban agriculture was found to play an important role in the lives of
residents currently engaging in the practice. The practice has a dual impact on poverty
conditions: it provides food which would otherwise be unaffordable to many residents,
and by utilizing money saved from buying food, it helps ease poverty conditions thus
improving livelihoods. The study recommends that urban agriculture be integreted into
urban planning.
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