Melbourne School of Land and Environment Urban Horticulture

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208-424 Buildings to Beans: Food in Cities

This subject will cover:

  • Global trends in Urban Agriculture
  • Plant growth requirements
  • Urban Agriculture market economies
  • Irrigation: managing different sources
  • Soil maintenance and rehabilitation
  • Integrated pest and disease management
  • Growing food on roofs
  • The role of Urban Agriculture in poverty alleviation
  • Subsistence Urban Agriculture
  • Assignment tutorial
  • Social dimensions of Urban Agriculture
  • Case study 1: cash and subsistence Urban Agriculture in Papua New Guinea
  • Case study 2: urban vegetable production in Accra, Ghana,
  • Food cooperatives in modern cities
  • Environmental risks and benefits of Urban Agriculture

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This subject is taught by Dr Andrew Hamilton

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