The organization of urban agriculture: Farmer associations and urbanization in Tanzania

Cities

Volumn 42, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 153-159

  Schmidt, Stephan ^a,b,c   Magigi, Wakuru ^a,b,c   Godfrey, Boniphace ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies   (Tanzania)

^c Tanzania Horticultural Association   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Cooperatives; Tanzania; Urban agriculture; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SMALLHOLDER; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

DAR ES SALAAM [TANZANIA]; KILIMANJARO [TANZANIA]; MOSHI; TANZANIA;

EID: 84912019937     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.05.013     Document Type: Article

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