Development of alternative livelihoods has become a popular policy to uplift the socioeconomic status of small-scale fishers and to reduce fishing pressure on overexploited fisheries. Seaweed farming has been incorporated into many community-based coastal resources management projects and fisheries management initiatives as an alternative livelihood option for fishers in tropical developing cou...

the complexity of urban systems in our recent world, make it difficult to evaluation and explanation of their changes with traditional and customarily methods. in the past, remote sensing has shown an ability to detect and describe urban growth patterns at different spatial scales. with new remote sensing devices (e.g. ikonos), with innovative image processing techniques and with further develo...

In Nigeria, there lies a relatively untapped potential for great agricultural growth. Since the 1960's, Nigeria's "days of agricultural glory," there has been great obstacles in the exchange of information between scientists and Nigerian farmers. There has been a great trend in rural-urban migration and a rise in unemployment; crime and school drop outs have ensued. The Nigerian non-literate...

Urban Farming is growing rapidly and becoming as a part of the solution for food insecurityand malnutrition problems urban citizen. But, facilitation development urbanfarming have not been able to overcome pressure faced by farmers mainlyaccessibility agroinput yet. Objectives this research were 1) identify ofagroinput, 2) know accessibility farmer agroinput, 3) analyze policy implicationto far...

Two distinct phenomena shape our planet: more than half of the world’s human population is urbanised (World Watch Institute 2007); and global warming induced climate change is a grave threat. Modern cities, in ecological terms, have become parasitic energy and resource ‘sinks,’ consuming 75% of the world’s resources on only 2% of the global land area (TFPC 1999). In this way cities ‘short-circu...

This study aims to demonstrate the effect of farming technology on introducing medicinal plants (MP) and wild food plants (WFP) into a traditional agricultural system within peri-urban zones. Field investigations and semi-structured focus group interviews conducted in the Buhozi community showed that 27 health and nutrition problems dominated in the community, and could be treated with 86 domes...

Children growing up on a farm in Europe or North America have rather consistently been observed to less often suffer from asthma and allergic diseases. 1 The hypothesis of possible protective effects of early life contact with a farming environment has opened a way for new understanding of the asthma and allergy epidemic in the Western world in the past few decades. A recent publication showed ...

In Vienna, consultants, organic farmers and green-minded consumers have developed a new concept of urban organic farming, called Selbsternte (`self-harvest'). Organic farmers prepare a plot of arable land (the Selbsternte plot) and sow or plant rows composed of 18±23 plant species. In mid-May the plots are divided into subplots that contain 2±6 m of every sown species and are rented to so-calle...