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Original Articles

Urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam: Its contribution to solving the economic crisis and the damage it does to the environment

Pages 47-65 | Received 01 May 1995, Accepted 01 Jul 1995, Published online: 27 Feb 2008
 

This article discusses urban agriculture in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and how it helps people to cope with the country's economic crisis. Urban agriculture is also associated with environmental degradation. The article identifies factors that encourage urban agriculture at four different levels and suggests that to check further environmental degradation, concerted efforts should be made at all four levels. Such efforts should be coordinated and integrated into a holistic view of sustainable urban development.

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Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania The author gratefully acknowledges financial assistance for this study from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa and the Sokoine University of Agriculture.

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