Irrigated Vegetable Farming in Urban Ghana: A Farming System between Challenges and Resilience

摘要

This chapter serves as an introduction to the book and provides brief information abouturbanization in West Africa, and in Ghana in particular, the general role of urban agricultureand the common use of polluted irrigation water. It describes our focus on irrigatedsmallholder vegetable production and our understanding of the terms ‘urban‘, ‘peri-urban’and ‘wastewater’. The chapter reflects on some of the key challenges of the farming system,its dynamic and resilience. It also gives an overview on the structure of the book, the originsof the data and the main objective of this publication.