Subsistence Urban Agriculture: Key Externalities and Way Forward
Liu, Stella; Teng, Paul | October 2017
Abstract
In the past few decades, urban areas have surpassed rural areas in food insecurity and poverty rates in the Asia Pacific. As a result, many of the urban poor have started to grow their own food as a way to feed their families and use the income saved to cover non-food household needs. However, in most cities, their efforts are not recognized in policies or supported. This policy brief identifies public health and food security implications of this lack of public oversight on urban farming. Policy recommendations on managing the negative externalities of urban agriculture and best practices for getting urban agriculture on the policy agenda are discussed.
Citation
Liu, Stella; Teng, Paul. 2017. Subsistence Urban Agriculture: Key Externalities and Way Forward. © S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7751.Keywords
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Urban Plans
Urbanism
Urban agriculture
Economic Development
Rural Urban Migration
Cities
Migration
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Urbanization
Urban Services
Urban Projects
Urban Problems
Urban Poverty
Urban Policy
Urban Planning
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Health
Urban Government
Urban Economic Development
Urban Development Finance
Urban Development
Urban Conditions
Urban Communities
Urban Population
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Local government
Urban renewal
Urban housing
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Transit systems
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