Urban agricultural activities and women's strategies in sustaining family livelihoods in Harare, Zimbabwe

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-194

  Mudimu, Godfrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOD SECURITY; LAND USE CONFLICT; PLANNING; SPATIAL EXPERIENCE; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN ECONOMY; WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE; WOMEN'S ROLE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN RELATION; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGRICULTURE; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER RELATIONS; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, EASTERN; AGRICULTURE; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PERCEPTION; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION; ZIMBABWE;

ZIMBABWE, HARARE;

EID: 0030373758     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.1996.tb00092.x     Document Type: Article

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