Nathan C. McClintock

In: UA Magazine No. 12 - Gender and Urban Agriculture

In Senegal, urban agriculture has grown rapidly in response to the fragile nature of urban food security and to meet the market needs of the growing urban populace. Inadequate access to land, precarious land tenure, and insufficient water and manure make urban farming increasingly difficult, particularly for women whose access to land and capital is limited by a host of socio-economic factors.