In: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture
The city of Gaborone has grown from a very small village to become the capital city of Botswana in a period of less than 36 years. Subsistence and commercial agriculture are both found throughout Gaborone. One of the safety nets adopted by the poor has been urban agriculture either as a means of survival or to supplement low incomes, while some entrepreneurs have opted for urban agriculture as a means of making money. Of the various credit programmes in Botswana, three have achieved some marked success in urban and periurban agriculture and are examined in this paper.