Cultivating Kaunda's plan for self-sufficiency: Is urban agriculture finally beginning to receive support in Zambia?

Development Southern Africa

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 613-625

  Thornton, Alec ^a,b   Nel, Etienne ^c   Hampwaye, Godfrey ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Cooperatives; Malaria; Survival strategies; Urban agriculture; Urban and peri urban agriculture; Zambia

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SECTOR; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MALARIA; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77956212725     PISSN: 0376835X     EISSN: 14703637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2010.508604     Document Type: Article

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