Abstract
Urban agriculture: A timely game changer for urban residents in Nigeria
Highlights
In the past, urban agriculture was practiced by a good number of residents in the cities within a variety of holdings: private, leased or rented lands and backyards
In the light of global urban greening championed by international bodies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for instance in 1996 estimated that 800 million people worldwide engage meaningfully in urban farming, 200 million of them being entrepreneurs and producers employing over 150 million people on full time basis (UNDP, 1996)
Not significantly captured in real sub-sectoral considerations, at the moment, well over 50% of the urban population in Africa are in one form or another already involved in urban agriculture (Obudho and Foeken, 1999)
Summary
Urban agriculture was practiced by a good number of residents in the cities within a variety of holdings: private, leased or rented lands and backyards. With the growing trend in this incidence, one major global and continental efforts for nations over the 25-year-roadmap will be to (re)activate and develop urban farming systems which can to an appreciable extent vigorously aid in meeting growing food deficits across their cities. This is especially apt given evident inadequacies in transportation and road network systems within urban/peri-urban settlements in addition to other critical infrastructure linking both divides (rural-urban areas) that ought to enhance distribution from the countryside at fairer rates (food costs). Urban agriculture has a high potential for improving the urban environment by using organic waste (solid wastes and waste water) as inputs by improving the micro-climate and by preventing erosion and flooding through consolidation of urban lands and soils which frequently are impacted from various fronts (human, vehicular, ecological, etc)
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