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Women and Urban Agriculture in Buffalo City: A Case Study of Mdantsane, Duncan Village and Postdam.
(University of Fort Hare, 2004-01) Phiri, Christopher
The urban poor are striving to find strategies to alleviate poverty. In South Africa, the urban poor, including women, are practising urban agriculture to alleviate poverty. Within the context of the debates on gender and development, this study explores the extent at which the urban poor of Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape, South Africa are benefiting from urban agriculture. The study highlights the challenges and problems encountered by the urban poor in the former black townships, and how the post realist research methodology was urban poor in the former black African state and the non-governmental organizations are supporting the alleviation of urban poverty. The realist research methodology was to be achieve the objectives of this study. Women dominate the practice benefiting from their endeavours. The study recommends the increased participation of the urban poor in urban agriculture and the creation of more open spaces for farming.