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2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
4. Crop–Livestock Integration in the Urban Farming Systems of Yaoundé
verfasst von : Thomas Dongmo, François Meffeja, Jean Marin Fotso, Christian Nolte
Erschienen in: African Urban Harvest
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
As a result of rapid rates of urban growth, especially in the larger centres of Douala and the capital, Yaoundé, about half the Cameroon’s population lives in urban areas (World Bank 2003). Yaoundé’s population increased at the rate of about 10 percent per annum from 0.64 million in 1987 to 1.5 million in 2000 (DSCN 2000), and is projected to be as much as 4 million by the year 2020. The city’s population faces enormous problems of poverty, with unemployment registering around 25 percent (DRSP 2003). To sustain themselves, households resort to urban agriculture (UA), which also provides some income. Statistics taken from just one aspect of UA show that at least 32 000 households sell traditional leafy vegetables, most of which are produced by the women in those households, using extensive mixed crop-farming systems (Gockowski et al. 2003).