Andrés Vélez-Guerra

In: UA Magazine 17 - Strengthening Urban Producers' Organisations

Lack of security of tenure and access to urban farmland undermines the poor’s capacity to practice and sustain urban agriculture. Empirical evidence from urban and periurban farmers’ groups in Bamako, Mali, suggests that as urbanisation intensifies in urban cores, land scarcity and competition trigger farmers’ political involvement and organisation in order to protect their livelihood and land rights.