Foodsheds and city region food systems in two West African cities

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cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Freiburgen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversität Kasselen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity for Development Studies, Ghanaen_US
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystemsen_US
cg.coverage.countryBurkina Fasoen_US
cg.coverage.countryGhanaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BFen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GHen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierDrechsel, Pay: 0000-0002-2592-8812en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su8121175en_US
cg.identifier.wlethemeRecovering and Reusing Resources in Urbanized Ecosystemsen_US
cg.issn2071-1050en_US
cg.issue12en_US
cg.journalSustainabilityen_US
cg.number1175en_US
cg.subject.wleFOOD SYSTEMSen_US
cg.volume8en_US
dc.contributor.authorKarg, Hannaen_US
dc.contributor.authorDrechsel, Payen_US
dc.contributor.authorAkoto-Danso, Edmund K.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGlaser, Rüdigeren_US
dc.contributor.authorNyarko, Georgeen_US
dc.contributor.authorBuerkert, Andreasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-22T07:22:45Zen_US
dc.date.available2016-12-22T07:22:45Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/78482en_US
dc.titleFoodsheds and city region food systems in two West African citiesen_US
dcterms.abstractIn response to changing urban food systems, short supply chains have been advocated to meet urban food needs while building more sustainable urban food systems. Despite an increasing interest in urban food supply and the flows of food from production to consumption, there is a lack of empirical studies and methodologies which systematically analyse the actual proportion and nutritional significance of local and regional food supplied to urban markets. The aim of this empirical study therefore was to compare the geographical sources supplying food to the urban population (“foodsheds”) in Tamale, Ghana and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to record the supplied quantities and to assess the level of interaction between the sources and the respective city. The study was conducted over two years, covering the seasons of abundant and short supply, via traffic surveys on the access roads to the two cities, and in the Tamale markets, resulting altogether in more than 40,000 records of food flow. Results indicated that food sources were highly crop- and season-specific, ranging from one-dimensional to multi-dimensional foodsheds with diverse sources across seasons. Across the commodity-specific foodsheds, city region boundaries were established. Within the proposed city region a relatively large proportion of smallholders contributed to urban food supply, taking advantage of the proximity to urban markets. While food provided from within the city region offers certain place-based benefits, like the provision of fresh perishable crops, a larger geographical diversity of foodsheds appeared to enhance the resilience of urban food systems, such as against climate related production failures.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.available2016-11-25en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKarg, H., Drechsel, P., Akoto-Danso, E., Glaser, R., Nyarko, G., & Buerkert, A. (2016). Foodsheds and City Region Food Systems in Two West African Cities. Sustainability, 8(12), 1175. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121175en_US
dcterms.issued2016en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherMDPIen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/79387en_US
dcterms.subjecturban food systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectfoodshedsen_US
dcterms.subjectcity region food systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectfood flowsen_US
dcterms.subjecturban food supplyen_US
dcterms.subjectspatial analysisen_US
dcterms.subjectgis mappingen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.subjectfood chainsen_US
dcterms.subjectfood supplyen_US
dcterms.subjectfood consumptionen_US
dcterms.subjectfood habitsen_US
dcterms.subjectfood productionen_US
dcterms.subjecturban environmenten_US
dcterms.subjecturban populationen_US
dcterms.subjectcropsen_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.subjectvegetablesen_US
dcterms.subjectleaf vegetablesen_US
dcterms.subjectorganic wastesen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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