Urban food systems and African indigenous vegetables: Defining the spaces and places for African indigenous vegetables in urban and peri-urban agriculture

African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-33

  Ambrose Oji, Bianca ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849770019     Document Type: Chapter

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