2012 Urban Agriculture Summit
Building Capacity for Action
Around
the world people are growing food in cities! From August 15 to 18, the
2012 Urban Agriculture Summit will bring together a diversity of people
that are making it happen - design professionals, community groups,
social housing advocates, tenants and developers, educators, planners,
homeowners, urban growers and others - to share what is working, and to
discover what is possible.
From
bee-keeping to community and school gardens; from aquaculture to
rooftop farming, urban agriculture is becoming an essential element of
food security, improving access to healthy, affordable food in a rapidly
urbanizing world. Urban agriculture can also generate much-needed
skills development and local employment while improving local
environmental and community health.
The
first Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto will be action-oriented:
attendees will learn new tools to advance urban agriculture in their own
communities. Together participants will explore urban agriculture's
current role and future potential in 21st century city-building.
Major Summit themes include:
- Food Security, food sovereignty and city-building
- Planning and design of innovative infrastructure for small & large-scale urban agriculture
- New technologies and innovative practices associated with production
- Scaling up urban agriculture: Supportive programs, policies and governance models
- Best management practices in for-profit and not-for-profit food production
- Building the business case: the economics, financing and marketing of urban agriculture
- Embedding urban agriculture in community development and housing
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