City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya ISBN: 9780773562806 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban agriculture -- Kenya -- Nairobi;
Urban agriculture, until now largely neglected, is of increasing economic significance in many African cities. Agriculture in the heart of the city is critical to the survival of very poor families and, especially, women and landless or unemployed rural migrants.