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UK: Urban Agriculture Consortium

Citizens want ambitious action for greener, healthier, fairer food and farming…

"In 2024 there is a growing consensus that the current food system needs radical change to adapt to climate change, and to address many issues around food security and food justice. We support calls for '… a comprehensive and coherent suite of food policies to improve public health, boost farm resilience and protect nature and the environment…'"

Learn more:
urbanagriculture.org.uk
#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChange #Resiliency #FoodSecurity #FoodJustice #ProtectNature #Agroecology #UrbanAgriculture

Urban Agriculture Consortium - Supporting communities · Urban Agriculture Consortium - Home PageIntroduction to the Urban Agriculture Consortium, promoting sustainable urban food production and agroecology

"Where do we go from here as researchers, as eaters and producers of food? The food system of today is in crisis. It has prioritized cost and yield over all else. The result? It doesn’t work for farmers, it does not produce nutritious, healthy food for people and it is a disaster environmentally. However, the future of food can be diversified, abundant and rooted in soil health practices, fostering social equity and farmer well-being."

--Laney Siegner talking about why she took exception to a study that showed that urban farms are more carbon-intensive than a typical rural ag setup, and why measuring such things with one metric only is probably the wrong way to go

#UrbanAg #UrbanAgriculture #Climate #DeGrowth #AgroEcology

modernfarmer.com/2024/03/opini

Modern Farmer · Opinion: To Make a Real Impact on Climate Change, We Must Move Beyond the Carbon Footprint - Modern FarmerAs a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint