Market gradening, unban development and income generation on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria

Author(s)

• Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen
• Netherlands-Israel Development Research Programme
• Van den Berg, L. M.
• Grossman, David
• Ajaegbu, Hyacinth I.

Bibliographic Information

Market gradening, unban development and income generation on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria

Hyacinth I. Ajaegbu, David Grossman, Leo M. van den Berg

（NIRP research for policy series, 3）

Royal Tropical Institute, KIT Publishers, 2000

Note

"Netherlands-Israel Development Research Programme (NIRP) was established jointly by the governments of the Netherlands and Israel and coordinated through DGIS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague) and MASHAV (the Centre for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem)."--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Are their ways to improve small-scale market gardening in and around the city of Jos, Central Nigeria, in order to raise its productivity and income-generating capacity? This question, the relevance of which extends to many other urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa, runs as a common thread through this book.<p>The study demonstrates that the Jos metropolitan area is well endowed with suitable gardening land, irrigation water, human resources and other conditions favorable to the market-oriented production of fruits and vegetables. Nevertheless, many constraints hinder the performance of the horticultural industry. To overcome problems like insecure tenure, inequitable marketing patterns, lack of managerial and technical skills, pollution and inadequate support, requires a multi-facetted and concurrent approach. The authors emphasize the need for small-scale gardeners to mobilize and organize in order to facilitate collective action and effective advocacy; and the need for considerable governmental and institutional support and social engineering. The experience of some Israeli Arabs has demonstrated, however, that under these conditions, achieving a successful transition is not easy.

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Details

• NCID: BA51590641
• ISBN:
  • 9068326643
• Country Code: ke
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: 62 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA51473058