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Three Ways To Urban Agricultures: Digging Into Three Very Different Offerings From Three New Books
Gardening activist Chiara Tornaghi and her assistant. “How to set up your own urban agricultural project with a socio-environmental justice perspective.”
By Wayne Roberts
Medium
Mar 24, 2017
Excerpt:
Ableman’s understanding of the centrality of engaging the human side of food production (should we call it human-centered food policy?) is the segway to the third body of work considered in this newsletter on urban agricultures?—?the work of Chiara Tornaghi at Coventry University in England.
As I read her articles, Tornaghi is so bold as to put our psychic needs of our deeply-rooted human spirit on par with deeply human physical needs for food?—?and thereby to classify citizen access to urban food production as essential. Only such a deep understanding of the need to engage with and participate in food production could account for her proposal that access to food production opportunities be classified as part of a citizen’s inborn and inherent “right to the city.”
Tornaghi’s work is accessible in a variety of places?—?including one article on how to set up an urban ag project, and one piece on the critical geography of urban ag, and one study on urban ag and the politics of empowerment, and one report on gardening activism, as well as a publication on European urban agriculture.
Read the complete article here.
Source: http://www.cityfarmer.info/2017/04/04/three-ways-to-urban-agricultures-digging-into-three-very-different-offerings-from-three-new-books/
