A review of practices for sustaining urban and peri-urban agriculture: Implications for land use planning in rapidly urbanising Ghanaian cities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.03.004
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Urban and peri-urban agriculture; Sustainable cities; Land access; Land scarcity; Urbanisation in Ghana;All these keywords.
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