How street vendors and waste pickers can help cities manage growth

The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact recently renewed global commitments to sustainable and equitable urban food systems. The ...
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Columbus hosts international symposium on growing urban agriculture

A selection of produce at the Veggie Van in Linden. The project launched to bring fresh fruit and vegetables to Columbus' food deserts. For the first time ever, Columbus is hosting the Urban Food ...
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USDA Announces $14.4 Million Initiative to Boost Urban Agriculture and Innovation

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled a significant $14.4 million funding package aimed at advancing urban agriculture and innovative production nationwide. Spread ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

‘Micro-agriculture’ is how Arkansas’s small, urban growers are making the food system more resilient

While farmers continue to face challenges -- from global competition and transportation issues to avian influenza and climate change -- a 'micro-agriculture approach' or backyard gardens can increase ...
Civil Eats

With Hunger on the Rise, Urban Gleaners Seek to Strengthen Local Food Security

• Nearly a third of the U.S. food supply is wasted every year. Meanwhile, 13.5 percent of the population lives with food insecurity, and that percentage is liable to increase as grocery costs rise and ...
Science Daily

Wastewater is a viable medium for growing lettuce in hydroponic systems

Urban agriculture has the potential to improve food security through local, efficient, and sustainable food production. Examples of urban food systems include hydroponics, where plants grow in a ...
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Sharing Meals

What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple ...