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Urbanization and Its Impacts to Food Systems and Environmental Sustainability in Urban Space

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dc.contributor.author Magigi, Wakuru
dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-22T12:30:14Z
dc.date.available 2024-10-22T12:30:14Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1613
dc.description.abstract Urbanisation is the key factor underpinning and catalysing changes in food systems, environmental quality, climate change and agriculture livelihoods in the overall urban ecosystem setting and its sustainability. The paper explores Dar es Salaam, a rapidly expanding city in Sub-Saharan Africa, and shows that urban agriculture provides urban ecosystem services and contributes to environmental sustainability. The interconnections of environmental justice, urban ecosystem services and climate change and variability found eminent feature that influence land governance, productivity and aesthetic value of the city. The study reaffirms the pivotal role urban agriculture which plays to enhance community health services and access to resources, with important implications on urban environmental sustainability and redistributive spatial land use planning policies and practices. The process of urbanisation, forms of urban agriculture and government strategies for enhanced urban food systems in the city economy have been highlighted. Equally, the process triggers the transformation of settlements from rural in character to modernity with an augmented land use conflicts. The results suggests that with increasing population, a clear spatial land use planning and management strategy is required to over- come the challenges and enhanced food systems and urban environmental sustainability in rapidly urbanizing cities like Dar es Salaam in Sub-Saharan Africa. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Moshi University College of Cooperative and Business Studies en_US
dc.subject Urbanization en_US
dc.subject Impacts en_US
dc.subject Food-Systems en_US
dc.subject Environmental en_US
dc.subject Sustainability en_US
dc.subject Urban en_US
dc.subject Livelihoods en_US
dc.title Urbanization and Its Impacts to Food Systems and Environmental Sustainability in Urban Space en_US
dc.title.alternative Evidence from Urban Agriculture Livelihoods in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania en_US
dc.type Other en_US


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