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Urban Agriculture AlterLinks Topic Index Connexions Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1983 Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture. Food Among the Ruins Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm. Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy. Gardening and food-growing guide Personal advice and tips on growing your own fruit and vegetables to stay healthy and save money. Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 We all know the advantages of organically produced food, but why should we have to spend a fortune on organic fruit and veg? It is often from miles away, over packed, expensive, a bit manky by the time we get it and in some areas only available from supermarkets. Get a Life! How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal. The Greening of the Cities Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Guerrilla gardening Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Political gardening, a form of direct action, primarily practiced by environmentalists. An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 A booklet for people in the city who grow or want to grow plants in container. The information is meant to be basic enough for beginners and informattive enough to be a handy reference for even an experienced gardener. In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more rundown sections of cities. Local Places In the Age of the Global City Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015 A Healthier Planet Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015 Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018 What are we eating? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food? A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs. People are radicalizing Venezuela's Revolution: An interview with Christina Schiavoni Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 In this interview Christina Schiavoni, a researcher and food sovereignty activist, provides a different view of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as on-going politics and people's participation in the politics. Plant, Pick & Eat It Wenn ein Garten wächst Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2014 A group of neighbours in Kassel, Germany come together to transform a public space into a community garden. The film explores both the positive human impacts of the initiative and the subsequent resistance by the city to allowing the garden to continue. Plant This Movie Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2014 A documentary which encourages people to use green spaces to grow vegetables instead of grass. The film explores urban gardening in cities including Havana, Shanghai, Calcutta, Addis Ababa, Lima, New York, New Orleans, and London. Poisoned Cities and Urban Gardens Resource Type: Article The Vertical Farming Scam Wrong on So Many Levels Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Vertical farming would involve using the floorspace of tall urban buildings for growing food plants through largely hydroponic methods. This is envisioned as a way to integrate food production with dense human populations, increase production per unit of land area, protect crops against pests without the use of chemicals, and take vulnerable agricultural soils out of production by relocating crops to cities. It can, in fact, achieve none of these goals.

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