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One answer is urban agriculture. Food and the City examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits, and taking their "food security" into their own hands. Award-winning food journalist Jennifer Cockrall-King sought out leaders in the urban-agriculture movement and visited cities successfully dealing with "food deserts." What she found was not just a niche concern of activists but a global movement that cuts across the private and public spheres, economic classes, and cultures.
She describes a global movement happening from London and Paris to Vancouver and New York to establish alternatives to the monolithic globally integrated supermarket model. A cadre of forward-looking, innovative people has created growing spaces in cities: on rooftops, backyards, vacant lots, along roadways, and even in "vertical farms." Whether it's a community public orchard supplying the needs of local residents or an urban farm that has reclaimed a derelict inner city lot to grow and sell premium market veggies to restaurant chefs, the urban food revolution is clearly underway and working.
Food and the City is an exciting, fascinating chronicle of a game-changing movement, a rebellion against the industrial food behemoth, and a reclaiming of communities to grow, distribute, and eat locally.
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An Urban Agriculture "Page Turner",
This review is from: Food And The City (Paperback)
This is an interesting, well-written and informative book! I would highly recommend this book for anyone who gardens, has ever wanted to garden, is thinking about gardening, is even moderately interested in gardening, or eats food on a daily basis. I have never been more excited to plant tomatoes! Of particular appeal to me was the fact that Jennifer explores urban agriculture in Canadian cities as well - we have a different growing season than most parts of the world, and many books fail to address that. The fact that Jennifer shows what can be done within Canadian cities, as well as European, Caribbean, and American cities, gives the book a broad appeal, and demonstrates that urban agriculture is possible anywhere.
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Wake up!,
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A very timely book for the issues that no one is thinking about--a finite supply of oil, how our industrial food is produced (with staggering quantities of oil), and how urban agriculture can help prepare for the impending end of industrial food. An uplifting and energetic book despite its pessimistic first chapters. A true wake-up call for those who have never thought about where their food comes from, and why it is so unhealthy in terms of its ecological effects, its limited genetic diversity, and its effect on consumers, but how simple the solutions are--grow your own food!
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