Urban agriculture can also increase a household's cash income. In
Bolivia, urban food projects supply women producers with 25%
of their total income (Prudencio, 1993: 15). In Dar es Salaam,
incomes obtained from UA are larger than regular salaries for 67% of
respondents (Sawio, 1993: 312). In Addis Ababa, all urban
cooperative farmers showed incomes well above those of half the
city's population: 50% earned more than 70% of the city's employed
population (Egziabher, 1994). In Nairobi, 47% of the urban
farmers had no visible means of support other than their urban shamba
plots (Freeman, 1991:135).
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