ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates agricultural alternatives emerging through practiced urban agriculture in Nairobi that enable socio-ecological spaces of food sovereignty, biodiversity and agency. Nairobi is a contradictory city; one who visits it can easily capture contrasts in lifestyles, livelihoods, infrastructures and wealth demonstrating prevalent political, social and historical power relations. Food sovereignty also highlights the socio-cultural values of farming and food, stressing the meaning of daily practices which can be both material and immaterial. In the gendered urban agricultural landscape of Nairobi, gender acts as a central structural category. Agrobiodiversity is not only important for the ecosystem, it also is of socio-cultural importance. The perception of human–nature relations among female farmers in Nairobi is quite diverse. Nature is seen as the environment we live in. Human beings must preserve their environment as we cannot survive without it. In Kenya rural-urban migration created a situation in which new ways of urban food and agricultural practices and supply structures can prosper.
