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This special issue on household-level food production has been edited by Vera Niņez with the support of the International Potato Centre, Lima, Peru
(c) The United Nations University, 1985
WHFNB-27/UNUP-559
ISSN 0379-5721
ISBN 92-808-0559-2
Printed in Japan
Household-level food production
Introduction: Household gardens and small-scale food production
Working at half-potential: Constructive analysis of home garden programmes in the Lima slums with suggestions for an alternative approach
Urban agriculture: Who cultivates and why? a case-study of Lusaka, Zambia
The tropical garden as a sustainable food system: A comparison of Indians and Settlers in Northern Colombia
The Chagga home gardens: A multi-storeyed agro-forestry cropping system on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Northern Tanzania
Household gardens and their niche in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
The Javanese home garden as an integrated agro-ecosystem
The Talun-Kebun: A man-made forest fitted to family needs
West Indian kitchen gardens: A historical perspective with current insights from Grenada
Subsistence gardens in Newfoundland
Will mankind be able to secure food in the twenty-first century?
Dietary approaches to the prevention of vitamin A deficiency
UNU sub-programme on food, nutrition, and poverty