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Urban food sovereignty: urgent need for agroecology and systems thinking…
Urban food sovereignty: urgent need for
agroecology and systems thinking in a post COVID-19 future
How the COVID-19 pandemic can trigger viable responses to increase
urban food sovereignty
More people participating then ever in the fruit production chain
How food sovereignty manifests in urban areas
Cooperative Gardens Commission’
How to reduce impacts like Covid 19 from distrubing world order
Community and home gardening
Community gardens and urban agriculture
Urban Agriculture gardening
Some estimates predict that urban agriculture could produce up to 10% of the global supply of pulses
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an increased interest in gardening. This has resulted in
Direct to consumers
Farmers market
Market gardens
Community suppoted agriculture
Agroecology for sustainable Agriculture
Politicization
Covid-19 and supply chain shortages
It also created a terrif battle between the U.S. and China causing cities and rural areas to experience food shortages.
These issues could happen at any time and show why methods of growing and producing food and food products need to be shifted towards a urban and peri-urban local production.
With the emergence of coivd-19 many of our food supply chains and systems went into a downward spiral and a lot of the inequalities in it were put on display as well as the fragility of our industrialized food systems
Examples of how humans have circumvented supply issues in the past.
Community and home gardening have long been important for the survival and independence of marginalized communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an increased interest in gardening. This has resulted in temporary seed and supply shortages and the development of a national ‘Cooperative Gardens Commission.'
Community gardens across the country have developed health and safety guidelines to remain in operation during the pandemic. This response demonstrates the potential importance of gardening as a safe, secure, local route to greater urban food sovereignty. The production of food in urban areas, via urban agriculture or gardening, can substantially shorten the supply chain and provide food- insecure families with the opportunity to design their own appropriate solutions and participate in food production.
During World War II food production was seriously disrupted in Europe, and the U.S. responded by planting over 18 million backyard gardens to supply food to military troops and others. Two-thirds of these were in urban areas, and 40% of all vegetables consumed in the U.S. were produced close to home