This paper addresses issues that affect poor urban households in the
global south and uses Port Harcourt City Nigeria as its case study. It
identified that poverty reduction strategies in Nigeria has always been
top-down and generalised. Policy makers and planners have never
considered differentiating urban from rural poverty and therefore, the
contributions of urban agriculture has not been really appreciated.

This paper reviewed urban agriculture from three developmental phases in
Nigeria and suggested that to understand what it is and what it does, it
should be city specific when defining it. it suggested that this should
be done in regards to the features of urban agriculture and in relation
to the city's economy. This is because what prompt someone to engage
with urban agriculture in London is different from the motivation of
those in Port Harcourt City.

The paper concluded that three social relations are important in
understanding why people engage with urban agriculture in the global
south. They are gender, birth right and social network.