What role for urban farming?

Laure Le Gall & translated by Oliver Waine — 2014-09-17T04:55:00Z

While the benefits of farming activities in large West African cities are starting to be recognised within the scientific community, Laure Le Gall believes that urban agriculture is still struggling to find its place within public policy. The few efforts that have been made by planners in places like Ouagadougou belie a desire to contain such activities, or even to relegate them to the urban fringes.
---- Series: Nature in the City In a context where urban space comes at a premium,

- Debates / nature, urban agriculture, market gardening, agriculture, farming, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Local food: a concrete Utopia

Christian Deverre & Jean-Baptiste Traversac & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-02-15T06:00:00Z

Roland Vidal recently invited us to look beyond short food-supply chains and rethink local links between cities and agriculture. Here, Christian Deverre and Jean-Baptiste Traversac provide a critical reading of the consequences of changes in farming production methods on the environment and the population.
In an article published in 2011 in Métropolitiques, Roland Vidal denounced both the lack of realism of proposals to feed major urban centres via local agriculture and the erroneous nature

- Debates / France, Paris region, utopia, urban agriculture, market gardening, proximity, short food-supply chains, food, Greater Paris, food culture

Metropolitics

What role for urban farming?

Local food: a concrete Utopia