Characteristics of urban and peri-urban agriculture in West Africa: results of an exploratory survey conducted in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

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dc.creatorBellwood-Howard, I.
dc.creatorHaring, V.
dc.creatorKarg, Hanna
dc.creatorRoessler, R.
dc.creatorSchlesinger, J.
dc.creatorShakya, M.
dc.date2015
dc.date2015-10-13T06:09:00Z
dc.date2015-10-13T06:09:00Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:27:38Z
dc.descriptionThe report summarizes key results from surveys carried out on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in 2013. The aim was to provide a broad overview of the state of UPA in the study cities and a basis for future research endeavors. The randomized sampling approach used aerial photography to identify 10 sites in different categories of farm in each city. Farmers provided information on their cropping and livestock-rearing activities. There were similarities between the cities, but the differences in the expression of UPA in Tamale and Ouagadougou were more intriguing, as in farm sizes, crops grown and livestock ownership. Farmers were particularly concerned about diminishing access to land in Tamale, where sales by chiefs to private investors were accelerating. In Ouagadougou, formal reallocation of land to homeowners by the state had similarly decreased available farmland. Water availability was a universal concern, and the quality of water used for irrigation was potentially more questionable in Ouagadougou than in Tamale. The results point to the need for further work on uncontaminated, perennial water sources and soil fertility management, alongside focuses on commercialization of animal production, and the legal, political and institutional context of UPA in different West African cities.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/68484
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/156543
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Water Management Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceBellwood-Howard, I.; Haring, V.; Karg, Hanna; Roessler, R.; Schlesinger, J.; Shakya, M. 2015. Characteristics of urban and peri-urban agriculture in West Africa: results of an exploratory survey conducted in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 38p. (IWMI Working Paper 163) doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.214
dc.subjecturban agriculture
dc.subjectperi-urban agriculture
dc.subjectfarming systems
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectseasonal cropping
dc.subjectcultivation
dc.subjectsoil sampling
dc.subjectsoil fertility
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectlivestock
dc.subjectlandownership
dc.subjectwater availability
dc.subjectwastewater
dc.subjectirrigation
dc.subjectmarket prices
dc.subjectleaf vegetables
dc.subjectinorganic fertilizers
dc.subjectorganic fertilizers
dc.subjectvillages
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.titleCharacteristics of urban and peri-urban agriculture in West Africa: results of an exploratory survey conducted in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
dc.typeWorking Paper

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