Metropolitan Agriculture

URL = http://www.metropolitanagriculture.com/

Description

"Metropolitan Agriculture is an organization dedicated to creating better links between metropolitan areas and food production. They hosted their first global summit and launched their 'Innoversity' at the end of September. They currently bring together six cities: Amsterdam, London, Detroit, Flint, Johannesburg, Sao Paolo, and Chennai to work on issues around sustainable food production, exchange ideas and best practice. The phrase 'metropolitan agriculture' quickly conjures up images of urban farming, food production on large vacant lots in otherwise heavily built up areas, and this model is certainly represented amongst the cities contributing to the conference. In actuality, however, that kind of urban farming is appropriate to a minority of cities. Much of the potential for urban agricultural reform is hidden further from view -- for example in reconfigured supply chains, or in policy focused on poverty reduction or better nutrition." (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011671.html)