Women Feeding Cities - new publication

Women Feeding Cities: Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security

Edited by Alice Hovorka, Henk de Zeeuw and Mary Njenga

Published by Practical Action Publishing

RUAF and Urban Harvest are pleased to announce the publication of this essential reading for researchers, policy makers and development practitioners on the analysis of the roles of women and men in urban food production.

Women make up the majority of urban food producers in many cities around the world, but have too often been invisible to city officials, economic planners and development practitioners. This volume presents various case studies from three developing regions and, in the second part of the book, presents field tested guidelines and tools for bringing women more into the mainstream of urban agriculture research and development.