Home gardens for improved food security and livelihoods
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Home gardens for improved food security and livelihoods
(Earthscan food and agriculture)
Routledge, 2021 [i.e. 2020]
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
: hbk611.3:D785011255659
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems.
With food and nutritional security being a major global challenge, there is an urgent need to find innovative ways to increase food production and diversify food sources while increasing income-generating opportunities for communities faced with hunger and poverty. This book shows that when implemented properly, home gardens can become just such an innovative solution, as well as an integral part of sustainable food security programs. It provides a conceptual overview of social, economic, environmental and nutritional issues related to home gardening in diverse contexts, including gender issues and biodiversity conservation, and presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America highlighting home gardening experiences and initiatives. The volume concludes with a synthesis of key lessons learned and ways forward for further enhancing home gardens for sustainable food security and development.
This book will be a useful read for students and scholars working on local food systems, food security, sustainable development and more broadly development strategy.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgement, List of tables, figures, boxes and photos, List of contributors, Foreword by Ruddell Freed, 1. Understanding the Global Practice of Home Gardening, 2. Home Gardens for Nutritional Security of Men, Women and Children, 3. Keeping it Close to Home: Home Gardens and Biodiversity Conservation, 4. Gender and Home Gardens: Towards Food Security and Women's Empowerment, 5. Home gardens for Better Health and Nutrition in Mozambique, 6. Home Garden Experiences in Costa Rica, 7. Bio-innovations towards Sustainable Agriculture: Success Stories from India, 8. Home Gardens as a Resilience Strategy for Enhancing Food Security and Livelihoods in Post-Crisis Situations: A Case Study of Sri Lanka, 9. Complementarity Between Home Gardening and Livestock Production System in Nepal, 10. Kitchen Vegetable Gardens for Food and Nutritional Security of Poorest in Rural India-Experiences of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, 11. Lessons Learned and the Way Forward on Home Gardens, Index
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