Urban agriculture: A timely game changer for urban residents in Nigeria

This paper leverages on the yet-unanswered calls of the 1996 World Food Summit as well as the 2nd Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations both of which support zero hunger and safe, nutritious and sufficient food. Nigeria and Africa on the whole actively engage in agriculture but this is more restricted to the rural area. This piece provides a view of the status of urban agriculture presented in both exploratory and descriptive terms thus contributing to the several academic fields in urban planning and research discourse. The farmers, government and urban managers are among key stakeholders that can step up at both local and regional scales especially in terms of governance, estate planning and urban dynamics. Although with a global outlook and dimension, case study therein presents current practices and quantitative descriptions based on surveys from metropolitan city of Lagos, Nigeria thus providing an argumentative reflection for the promotion of a wide range of urban agriculture practices. This is hoped to nourish the discussion on urban wellbeing and development.

本文依托1996年世界粮食首脑会议（1996 World Food Summit）尚未得到响应的呼吁，以及联合国第二个可持续发展目标（2nd Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nations）展开研究——二者均以实现零饥饿、安全且富有营养的充足粮食为宗旨。尼日利亚及整个非洲大陆虽积极投身农业发展，但此类农业活动大多局限于农村地区。本文以探索性与描述性相结合的方式，阐释城市农业发展现状，以此丰富城市规划及相关研究领域的学术话语体系。农户、政府与城市管理者作为核心利益相关方，可在地方与区域层面发挥更大作用，尤其在治理、地产规划及城市动态发展相关领域。尽管本文具备全球研究视角与维度，但文中案例研究基于尼日利亚拉各斯大都会的调研数据，呈现了当地城市农业的当前实践与量化特征，进而为推广多元城市农业实践提供论证性思考。本文以期为城市福祉与发展相关议题的讨论注入助力。