Assessing the Contributions of Urban Agriculture to Improved Livelihoods and Environmental Protections:-The Case of Vegetable Producers in Bole Sub City , Addis Ababa.
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2015-11
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Addis Ababa University
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The main focus of the study is to assess the contribution of vegetable urban agriculture to improved livelihoods of the urban farmers and urban environment protections and focused on assessing the impact of the adopted urban agriculture policy and strategy on the production, profitability and developments of vegetable urban agriculture .The study was conducted in Bole sub city, Addis Ababa. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to get a total of 70 respondents. Data were collected using questionnaires, semi structured interviews and personal observations. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze the data.
The findings of the study showed that as vegetable urban farming contributed to improved livelihoods of the vegetable producing urban farmers particularly by creating employment opportunity , by improving the food availability, accessibility situations , access to health services for the vegetable producing urban farmers , and vegetable urban farming has not contributed to improved access to educational service , nutritional food consumptions and to urban environment protections of the city of Addis Ababa in particularly through productive reuse of urban organic waste and wastewater .
The production , profitability and development of vegetable urban agriculture still constrained by shortage of land , clean water supply , poor irrigation infrastructure and lack of access to quality seeds, organic fertilizers, and lack of access to financial and credit and the city administration of Addis Ababa has not made deliberate efforts on implementing the adopted urban agriculture policy .To further strengthen the potential positive contribution of urban agriculture , the city administration of Addis Ababa have to facilitate the urban farmers access to the municipal vacant spaces , to clean and safe water supply, to productive quality seeds and compost fertilizers with the aim to ensure sustainable livelihoods for all of the poor vegetable producing urban farmers and environmental protections of the city through productive use of urban waste
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Geography and Environmental Studies