Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
planners and health officials who view the practice as a rural activity, misplaced in
urban areas, and harbinger of malaria, disease and other public hazards. The persist-
ence of global hunger and malnutrition in the rapidly urbanizing global south could
see UPA emerging as a formal initiative.
his hapter will discuss the potential for urban agriculture to emerge as a formal
policy for local food production in one of the more geographically and economic-
ally isolated regions of the developing world - the small-island developing states of
the South Pacific (see
Figure 13.1
). The following sections will provide an overview
of urban agriculture, including conditions where it tends to thrive, as a response to
minimize risk, urban poverty and food insecurity. The role of institutions in facilitat-
ing UPA and local food production in the South Pacific is explored in case studies of
are generating differing responses. Finally, the potential of UPA as a formal policy
approah to ensure food security and sustainable urban development is considered.
Figure 13.1 Map of South Pacific Islands, including Fiji and Samoa. Base map:
