At present, 75% of occupying families have been gaining benefits from the Family Business Garden

By Thilak T. Ranasinghe, PhD.
Consultant/Advisor for Urban Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods

Excerpt:

Technology Adoption: – It is great that residents adopted new crop cultivations, creation of live-vertical-cultivation-structures, and use of artificial shade during drought periods and soil improvement methodologies in the process of technology adoption. Micro-irrigation demonstrations were conducted so as to reduce water bills and also production costs. The adoption levels were high although majority of the residents were strangers to scientific agriculture or if not for any form of micro-agriculture.

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Agriculture in an urbanizing society – International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations

Conference
The Netherlands
1 – 4 April 2012

What are the challenges of future urban agriculture?

Urban agriculture is defined as producing food and food products within the city, or in the city fringe, and simultaneously provide non-food products and services for city dwellers. Urban agriculture is as old as our cities, but lost its function swiftly in the 19th century mainly due to new means of conservation, processing and transportation of food. Today, urban agriculture, in all its diversity, is regaining its function as local food producer and processor, in both developing and developed cities worldwide.

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Edible City – Part 1 – Introductions from East Bay Pictures on Vimeo.

Andrew Hasse – Director – Edible City

Email from Andrew Hasse
Director/Edible City
(Must see videos. Mike)

It’s been a very long time since the last update on Edible City, and for that I am very sorry and deeply humbled. The process of assembling and editing the amazing material we’ve collected over the past few years has been at times inspiring, at times challenging, and has even caused a few moments of panic and despair.

I’m happy to say, however, that I’ve broken on through to the other side, and am now making great progress! A rough cut has recently been completed, and sections of it are viewable on the new website, ediblecity.net.

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