“It was a bit of an oxymoron,” he recalls. “If agriculture, you’re rural; if urban, you’re a modern consumer. Our outlook at City Farmer was mostly aimed at the backyard farmers who had veggie gardens. It was the non-commercial demographic and we wanted to teach them about the environment through our organization.”

“Back in 1978, urban agriculture didn’t have a place in the world as an important topic, but that has changed so dramatically. It is now a serious subject of discussion in the United Nations and development groups, in food and agriculture groups, in the World Bank and in academia.”

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