A.C.Mosha

In: UA Magazine 10 - Appropriate (Micro) Technologies for Urban Agriculture

Agriculture is Botswana's urban and periurban areas are not widespread. Some poor families have taken up farming to supplement their incomes, while a few entrepreneurs have chosen urban and periurban farming as business ventures. In the capital city, Gaborone, most commercial and subsistence farmers are situated in freehold, municipal or tribal land in north and south of the city. The farms operate as private ventures or as a project of an academic or scientific institution. Innovative agricultural technologies are being used in several urban areas in Botswana, which address the issues of poverty and food security at the grassroots level. Farmers cannot depend on conventional means of agriculture Some of the technologies adopted are described.