Has been quite a busy time of the semester and so we haven't been so active with our blog.. however, we have been working on our research and we have a lot of interesting information to share with everyone!
First of all here is our literature review:
As cities still heavenly depend on their hinterland,
it is important to connect the rural agricultural producers to city
initiatives. So the city will partly be its own supplier and become more
resilient (Eetbaar Rotterdam, 2011). At the same time the cultivation of
vegetables is brought back to the people, as it was only a process that would
take place outside cities. According to many policy makers agriculture is most
efficiently done in rural areas, however due to the closeness of consumers and
resources in a city, agriculture in urban environments is also efficient
(Lovell, 2010)! Urban agriculture usually takes place in locations inside the
cities or in the per-urban areas. They may take place on-plot, close to the
homestead or off-plot, away from ones home and can also be located either on
private land, public land or even semi-public land such as schoolyards. In Africa urban agriculture creates work opportunities for
the urban poor; moreover it makes city inhabitants less dependent on rural
harvests and development aid. As urbanization is quicker than the food supply
can react, urban agriculture can save lives and form a more stable production
of food in those countries (Zezza, Tasciotti, 2010).
Urban agriculture can be defined as the food
production in a city, but in fact it is much more than that (Deelstra et al.,
2001). Not only growth, but also the distribution of food, spices and flowers
and even keeping livestock, intended for the urban consumer market, are part of
urban agriculture (Lovell, 2010). Urban Agriculture is open to many different
varieties of agriculture. Different types of crops such as grains, root corps,
vegetables, mushroom, and fruits. As well as products known as non-food products
such as aromatic and medicinal herbs, ornamental plants, tree products, etc…
Urban agriculture is an abstract process that tries to
connect the urban consumer to its basic needs: food production and the
availability of open spaces. The approach concerning urban agriculture is
different in every city; this partly results from different policies in regions
and countries.
References
Deelstra, T. , Boyd, D.
& Van den Biggelaar, M. (2001, July). MULTIFUNCTIONAL
LAND USE: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PROMOTING URBAN AGRICULTURE IN EUROPE .
Urban Agriculture Magazine, 4, 1-7.
Retrieved from
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/ewais/Urban%20Design%20%20Land%20Use%20Researches/Multifunction%20Land%20Use.pdf
Eetbaar Rotterdam (2011, March). Room
for Urban Agriculture in Rotterdam
Killoran-McKibbin, S. (2006). Cuba
Taylor Lovell, S. (2010). Multifunctional Urban Agriculture for
Sustainable Land Use Planning in the United States .
Sustainability, 2, 2499-2522. doi:10.3390/su2082499
Zezza, A., & Tasciotti, L. (2010). Urban agriculture, poverty, and
food security: Empirical evidence from a sample of developing countries. Food Policy, 35, 265-273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.04.007
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