Water, land and health in urban and peri-urban food production: The case of Kano, Nigeria

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 431-444

  Binns, J A ^a   Maconachie, R A ^a   Tanko, A I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYERO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Environment; Food production; Health; Kano; Nigeria; Peri urban; Urban

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH CARE; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXIC MATERIALS; URBAN PLANNING; WATER POLLUTION;

PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURE;

FOOD PRODUCTION; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0142156146     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.571     Document Type: Article

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