Paule Moustier

In: UA Magazine 5 - Methodologies for UA research, policy development, planning and implementation

This paper provides practical indicators and field methods for assessing the impact of urban and periurban agriculture in social and economic terms (employment, income, added value, and food supply). In a context of growing advocacy for policy support in favour of urban agriculture, and while public resources are shrinking, it is necessary that researchers provide rigorous assessments of the contribution of agriculture to the city's policy objectives (Ellis and Sumberg 1998). This paper is based on the author's fieldwork in West and Central Africa, with a focus on vegetable production and marketing (Moustier 2000), as well as on a literature review.