Abstract
In developing countries, cities are rapidly expanding and urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) has an important role in feeding these growing urban populations; however such agriculture also carries public health risks such as zoonotic disease transmission. It is important to assess the role of UPA in food security and public health risks to make evidence-based decisions on policies. Describing and mapping the peri-urban interface (PUI) are the essential first steps for such an assessment. Kampala, the capital city of Uganda is a rapidly expanding city where the PUI has not previously been mapped or properly described. In this paper we provide a spatial representation of the entire PUI of Kampala economic zone and determine the socio-economic factors related with peri-urbanicity using a population-dynamics focussed rapid rural mapping. This fills a technical gap of rapid rural mapping and offers a simple and rapid methodology for describing the PUI which can be applied in any city in developing countries for wide range of studies.
Highlights
In developing countries, cities are rapidly expanding; by 2025 it is estimated that over 50% of the population in those countries will reside in or around cities (FAO, 2002)
The key-informants and participants of rural assessment (RRA) depicted the flow of people in urbanisation—the real life of urban migration well
Most of the slums in Kampala were located in a valley or a swamp which were flooded with rains but the poor lived in overcrowded conditions in such slums because the rooms were the only affordable option
Summary
Cities are rapidly expanding; by 2025 it is estimated that over 50% of the population in those countries will reside in or around cities (FAO, 2002). Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) has an important role in feeding these growing city populations (FAO, 2000); it carries public health risks such as transmission of zoonotic diseases (Flynn, 1999). It is important to study both the role of UPA in food security and the public health risks in order to seek the evidence-based best management policy of UPA. As seen in the recovery from a food crisis in Cuba (Bourque, 2003), UPA can have a significant positive impact on food security. It contributes to offer job opportunities (FAO, 2000) and its proximity to a city with high demand of food is a significant advantage for perishable food producers including livestock products such as milk (Brook et al, 2006).
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