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Allotment gardens: Definitions,
forms and Examples of urban
agriculture
Augustin Aoudji
augustin.aoudji@gmail.com or augustin.aoudji@fsa.uac.bj
&
Smith Dossou
smithdossou@yahoo.fr
Amélioration de la sécurité alimentaire grâce
au développement de jardins
communautaires dans les villes du Bénin –
Atelier de lancement: Cotonou, 1er juillet 2016
Outline
Objectives
Background
Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms
Other examples of urban agriculture
Socio-demographic profiles of urban farmers in Benin
Concluding remarks 2
Objectives
Globally: Present some facets of urban agriculture,
with focus on Benin’s conditions
Specifically
o Clarify the concept of urban agriculture and its specificities in
Benin
o Elaborate on the concept of allotment garden and the
diversity behind it, especially in Benin’s conditions
3
Background …
Continuous growth of cities and peri-urban areas, at
an exponential rate, especially in the developing
countries
Locus of poverty in Africa: Slow shift from rural to
urban areas (WRI: more than 56% poor)
Livelihood support: a problem for up to half of city
dwellers (60-80% income of the urban poor spent in food)
4
Background …
5
Poverty
+
High food
prices
Reduction of
quantity of
food
consumed;
Influence on
the nutritional
quality of the
food
purchased
Food
security of
many urban
households
(poorest of
society), is
undermined
Increased attention to urban
agriculture
6
Food security, food supply
and urban food systems ==>
challenge for decision
makers
Background …
Existence of a demand
for high food quality from
the middle class
Problems with the
disposal of urban wastes
and waste water
The issue of unemployment,
especially among young and
women
Background
Urban agriculture
«Cultivation of plants and the raising of
animals with food purposes, inside and
around the cities including, even, other
uses and activities related such as the
production and the delivery of inputs, and
the processing and commercialization of
the products» (Game and Primus, 2015)
7
Allotment gardens: Definitions and
forms …
Urban gardening  significant
component of urban agriculture
o Large variety of food production forms
centered within and around cities
o Terms of land tenure and stakeholder
labor
Allotment gardens  Type of urban
gardening 8
Allotment gardens: Definitions and
forms …
Emergence of the concept
Development of allotment gardens in Europe during the 18th
century
Equivalent concepts:
o Allotment
o Community garden.
9
Allotment gardens: Definitions and
forms …
Definition
o Plot of land made available for individual for gardening or
growing food plants
o Subdivided into a few or up to hundreds of units
o Parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other
community garden types where the entire area is tended
collectively by a group of people.
10
Allotment gardens: Definitions and
forms …
Characteristics (Matos and Batista, 2013) :
o Use of urban resources, production for urban citizens;
o Proximity to the markets;
o High competition for the land;
o Limited space, utilization of organic resources;
o Predominant production of perishable goods, and a high
degree of specialization;
o … 11
Forms:  Typology of allotment gardens
Three major urban and peri-urban horticulture
systems in southern Benin (FAO, ibid)
1. Very extensive production on the food plains north
of Cotonou
12
Allotment gardens: Definitions and
forms …
2. Moderately extensive
systems in the coastal
areas of Grand-Popo
and Agoué
3. Fully urban, very
intensive gardening on
plots of less than 0,3 ha
13
Allotment gardens: Definitions and
forms…
Home gardens
or Private
gardens
Cultivation of a small portion of land which
may be around the household or within
walking distance from the family home
Institutional
gardens
Small to large food-producing gardens or
orchards located on private or public
institutional property in a residential,
commercial or mixed-use area, gardened
by an organization or business
14
Other examples of urban agriculture …
Hobby chicken
keeping
Small-scale keeping of chickens in
residential areas or other public land areas
for personal use or for commercial use
Market gardens Small- to medium-scale production of food-
producing or ornamental plants, bees, fish,
poultry, or small farm animals located on
public or private property and designed and
managed for commercial purposes using a
variety of growing techniques
15
Other examples of urban agriculture …
Urban animal
husbandry
Breeding animals in and around the cities
16
Other examples of urban agriculture …
o Rabbit farming
o Poultry (egg, meat)
o Pig
o Sheep
o Cattle
o …
Other examples of urban agriculture …
17
Urban
aquaculture
Farming of aquatic organisms, including
fish, mollusks, crustaceans and aquatic
plants within the urban environment
Hobby
beekeeping
Small-scale keeping of honeybees for personal
use. Beehives can be co-located with gardens or
non-garden uses , on underutilized spaces in
residential, mixed-use, or other public land areas
Edible
landscape
Use of food-producing plants in the design of
private and public outdoor spaces in residential,
commercial, and mixed-use developments,
attended to by an individual or business
18
Other examples of urban agriculture …
Continuous
Productive Urban
Landscape
(CPULs)
Non-built and urban landscape,
economically, social-culturally and
ecologically productive, situated in a
landscaping strategy to a metropolitan
scale, built to include living and natural
elements
The Urban
countryside
Every agricultural activity of control and
management of a biological cycle of
either plant or animal, together with the
activity developed by a farmer in the
prosecution of the act of production or
sustained by the companies
19
Other examples of urban agriculture
Socio-demographic profiles of urban
farmers in Benin
Gender: 61% men; 39% women
(Shakleton et al., 2009).
Education: Unemployed (Young
undergraduates!!!)
Urban farming combined with other
activities (traders, employees, civil
servants…)
20
Concluding remarks …
Allotment gardens  opportunity to reduce
poverty and improve food security in cities
Existence of challenges:
o Competition for land;
o Risks of environmental degradation;
o Need of quality support service;
o Health concerns: cohabitation between
humans and animals. 21
Concluding remarks
Urban agriculture/Allotment gardens expected to
receive increased attention in the policy agenda
Contribution of this project:
Generate decision-making tools, so as to enlighten
policy makers.
22
Thanks for your attention
23

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Jardins communautaires définitions, formes et exemples d’agriculture urbaine

  • 1. Allotment gardens: Definitions, forms and Examples of urban agriculture Augustin Aoudji augustin.aoudji@gmail.com or augustin.aoudji@fsa.uac.bj & Smith Dossou smithdossou@yahoo.fr Amélioration de la sécurité alimentaire grâce au développement de jardins communautaires dans les villes du Bénin – Atelier de lancement: Cotonou, 1er juillet 2016
  • 2. Outline Objectives Background Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms Other examples of urban agriculture Socio-demographic profiles of urban farmers in Benin Concluding remarks 2
  • 3. Objectives Globally: Present some facets of urban agriculture, with focus on Benin’s conditions Specifically o Clarify the concept of urban agriculture and its specificities in Benin o Elaborate on the concept of allotment garden and the diversity behind it, especially in Benin’s conditions 3
  • 4. Background … Continuous growth of cities and peri-urban areas, at an exponential rate, especially in the developing countries Locus of poverty in Africa: Slow shift from rural to urban areas (WRI: more than 56% poor) Livelihood support: a problem for up to half of city dwellers (60-80% income of the urban poor spent in food) 4
  • 5. Background … 5 Poverty + High food prices Reduction of quantity of food consumed; Influence on the nutritional quality of the food purchased Food security of many urban households (poorest of society), is undermined
  • 6. Increased attention to urban agriculture 6 Food security, food supply and urban food systems ==> challenge for decision makers Background … Existence of a demand for high food quality from the middle class Problems with the disposal of urban wastes and waste water The issue of unemployment, especially among young and women
  • 7. Background Urban agriculture «Cultivation of plants and the raising of animals with food purposes, inside and around the cities including, even, other uses and activities related such as the production and the delivery of inputs, and the processing and commercialization of the products» (Game and Primus, 2015) 7
  • 8. Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms … Urban gardening  significant component of urban agriculture o Large variety of food production forms centered within and around cities o Terms of land tenure and stakeholder labor Allotment gardens  Type of urban gardening 8
  • 9. Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms … Emergence of the concept Development of allotment gardens in Europe during the 18th century Equivalent concepts: o Allotment o Community garden. 9
  • 10. Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms … Definition o Plot of land made available for individual for gardening or growing food plants o Subdivided into a few or up to hundreds of units o Parcels are cultivated individually, contrary to other community garden types where the entire area is tended collectively by a group of people. 10
  • 11. Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms … Characteristics (Matos and Batista, 2013) : o Use of urban resources, production for urban citizens; o Proximity to the markets; o High competition for the land; o Limited space, utilization of organic resources; o Predominant production of perishable goods, and a high degree of specialization; o … 11
  • 12. Forms:  Typology of allotment gardens Three major urban and peri-urban horticulture systems in southern Benin (FAO, ibid) 1. Very extensive production on the food plains north of Cotonou 12 Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms …
  • 13. 2. Moderately extensive systems in the coastal areas of Grand-Popo and Agoué 3. Fully urban, very intensive gardening on plots of less than 0,3 ha 13 Allotment gardens: Definitions and forms…
  • 14. Home gardens or Private gardens Cultivation of a small portion of land which may be around the household or within walking distance from the family home Institutional gardens Small to large food-producing gardens or orchards located on private or public institutional property in a residential, commercial or mixed-use area, gardened by an organization or business 14 Other examples of urban agriculture …
  • 15. Hobby chicken keeping Small-scale keeping of chickens in residential areas or other public land areas for personal use or for commercial use Market gardens Small- to medium-scale production of food- producing or ornamental plants, bees, fish, poultry, or small farm animals located on public or private property and designed and managed for commercial purposes using a variety of growing techniques 15 Other examples of urban agriculture …
  • 16. Urban animal husbandry Breeding animals in and around the cities 16 Other examples of urban agriculture … o Rabbit farming o Poultry (egg, meat) o Pig o Sheep o Cattle o …
  • 17. Other examples of urban agriculture … 17 Urban aquaculture Farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, mollusks, crustaceans and aquatic plants within the urban environment
  • 18. Hobby beekeeping Small-scale keeping of honeybees for personal use. Beehives can be co-located with gardens or non-garden uses , on underutilized spaces in residential, mixed-use, or other public land areas Edible landscape Use of food-producing plants in the design of private and public outdoor spaces in residential, commercial, and mixed-use developments, attended to by an individual or business 18 Other examples of urban agriculture …
  • 19. Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPULs) Non-built and urban landscape, economically, social-culturally and ecologically productive, situated in a landscaping strategy to a metropolitan scale, built to include living and natural elements The Urban countryside Every agricultural activity of control and management of a biological cycle of either plant or animal, together with the activity developed by a farmer in the prosecution of the act of production or sustained by the companies 19 Other examples of urban agriculture
  • 20. Socio-demographic profiles of urban farmers in Benin Gender: 61% men; 39% women (Shakleton et al., 2009). Education: Unemployed (Young undergraduates!!!) Urban farming combined with other activities (traders, employees, civil servants…) 20
  • 21. Concluding remarks … Allotment gardens  opportunity to reduce poverty and improve food security in cities Existence of challenges: o Competition for land; o Risks of environmental degradation; o Need of quality support service; o Health concerns: cohabitation between humans and animals. 21
  • 22. Concluding remarks Urban agriculture/Allotment gardens expected to receive increased attention in the policy agenda Contribution of this project: Generate decision-making tools, so as to enlighten policy makers. 22
  • 23. Thanks for your attention 23