1st Edition

Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods

238 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

238 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

238 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems. With food and nutritional security being a major global challenge, there is an urgent need to find innovative... Read more

Preface and Acknowledgement

List of tables, figures, boxes and photos

List of contributors

Foreword by Russell Freed

1. Understanding the Global Practice of Home Gardening

D. Hashini Galhena Dissanayake

2. Home Gardens for Nutritional Security of Men, Women and Children

Jacqueline d'Arros, Hughes, John Donough Heber, Keatinge and Julien Curaba

3. Keeping it Close to Home: Home Gardens and Biodiversity Conservation

Gamini Pushpakumara, Jessica Sokolow, Bhuwon Sthapit, Wawan Sujarwo and Danny Hunter

4. Gender and Home Gardens: Towards Food Security and Women’s Empowerment

Katarina Huss, Dilrukshi Hashini Galhena and Linda Racioppi

5. Home gardens for Better Health and Nutrition in Mozambique

Adrienne Attorp, Amir Kassam and Peter Dorward

6. Home Garden Experiences in Costa Rica

Helga Blanco–Metzler and Alex Diaz Porras

7. Bioinnovations towards Sustainable Agriculture: Success Stories from India

Nidhi P Chanana and Neetika W Chhabra

8. Home Gardens as a Resilience Strategy for Enhancing Food Security and Livelihoods in Post–Crisis Situations: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

D. Hashini Galhena Dissanayake, Gunasingham Mikunthan and Linda Racioppi

9. Complementarity Between Home Gardening and Livestock Production System in Nepal

Ramjee Ghimire and Nanda Joshi

10. Kitchen Vegetable Gardens for Food and Nutritional Security of Poorest in Rural India–Experiences of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme

Naveen K Patidar, Sajan Prajapati, and Kamlesh Panchole

11. Lessons Learned and the Way Forward on Home Gardens

Karimbhai M. Maredia and Joseph Guenthner

Index