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Urban Agriculture and the Urban
Economy• Urban Greening and Urban Agriculture?
• Placing members of the community as “farmers” in theseareas is an opportunity
• Access to the land would need to be strictly controlled via
agreements, similar to those currently in use in Stellenbosch
through the Stellenbosch Small Farmers Holdings Trust
• Alternative economic models are also required. Eg:
establishment of cooperatives• The connection between UA and alternative localised
economies, such as seed saving groups and seed banks
provide opportunities that are often not considered as
benefits associated with UA - social capital
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Seed Saving Workshop
– November 2008
30 people booked
– 245 attendees
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Allotments - Ely
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Urban Agriculture & Development
• Urban Agriculture will become a core area of development
focus in the future• Strategies and plans to implement this in a manner that
enhances social justice, ensures ecological sustainability and
critical.
• Methodological process which include:
– Creation of an enabling institutional policy framework
– Diagnosis and prioritisation – Elaboration of Action Plans
– Implementation and monitoring
– Institutionalisation / upscaling
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CoCT UA Going Forward
• The formal recognition of urban agriculture as an industry
and a social development process that supports thesustainability objectives of the City
• Requires a management team that would be able to respond
.
• There is a need for interventions that go beyond urban
greening, second economy economic interventions and food
security.
• It is essential that urban agriculture becomes a core thrustwithin the planning and development of the City
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Urban Agriculture -Linked to all
other Urban Strategies• For urban agriculture to effectively address the
developmental needs of a city it needs to incorporate theintegration in urban land use planning and it needs to include
urban agriculture in overall food security policies
•
environmental policies as well as urban health policies
• The integrated nature of urban agriculture makes it an ideal
development opportunity and one that needs to come to the
forefront of urban planning and management.• Food and nutritional security is not only about agriculture, but
is a truly cross-cutting issue that involves all in the dynamic
context of the population-energy-environment nexus.
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