Cabannes, Y;
(2012)
Financing urban agriculture.
Environment and Urbanization
, 24
(2)
665 - 683.
10.1177/0956247812456126.
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Abstract
For most small urban farmers, the lack of access to financing is a major bottleneck in their capacity to maintain and expand their activities, and more generally in the potential for scaling up affordable food production in cities. This paper reports on action research undertaken by local teams in 17 cities of different size in Latin America, Asia and Africa. In each city, the teams examined how urban farmers are financing their activities along the value chain, essentially with their own resources, what the gaps are between their needs and the existing practices of public and private institutions with regard to finance, and what mechanisms and innovations can help to close this gap. Financing is defined here as a complex, dynamic combination of resource mobilization, both monetary and non-monetary, plus savings, subsidies and credits.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Financing urban agriculture |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0956247812456126 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247812456126 |
| Additional information: | © 2012 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| Keywords: | financing; grassroots; innovations; local development; urban and peri-urban agriculture; urban poverty; |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1390703 |
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