Marielle Dubbeling and René van Veenhuizen

In: UA Magazine 9 - Financing Urban Agriculture

Even low financial support can make a significant difference to poor urban families. Many of the increasing group of urban dwellers living around the poverty line are (informal) micro-entrepreneurs, involved in a diversity of activities such as shopkeeping, waste collection and recycling, trading, transport and farming. These entrepreneurs require access to working capital for the maintenance of their investment and for its potential expansion.