Growing opportunity : urban agriculture takes root in empty lots and abandoned spaces
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2006
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Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, ON, CA
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Globally, an estimated 800 million people, the majority of them women, are engaged in urban agriculture -- everything from small-scale gardens to the rearing of livestock -- within or near cities and towns. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as many as two-thirds of urban and suburban households in the developing world are involved in some sort of farming. The article provides an overview of urban agriculture globally, with aspects of both the global south where gardening often provides food security, and northern developed countries- where urban gardens bring food growing back into the public landscape.
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Meeting: World Urban Forum, 19-23 June 2006, Vancouver, BC, CA
Also published in the Montreal gazette, June 18, 2006 edition
Also published in the Montreal gazette, June 18, 2006 edition
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URBAN AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY, INCOME GENERATION, POVERTY, ENVIRONMENT, URBANIZATION, GLOBAL, URBAN PLANNING