Growing Urban Agriculture: Equitable Strategies and Policies for Improving Access to Healthy Food and Revitalizing Communities

2012

By: PolicyLink, Solana Rice

http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/URBAN_AG_FULLREPORT.PDF
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Food Systems | Urban Agriculture

This report examines how urban farming can help communities by improving access to healthy food, improving economic health, and helping to revitalize communities. It reviews common challenges to urban agriculture for low-income and other disadvantaged communities and offers innovative strategies for overcoming those challenges. It also presents examples of potential policy approaches that help ensure benefits for communities by involving them in policy development and advocacy steps to identify and advance an urban agriculture policy agenda.