Sustainable Futures: Agriculture Presenation Pt2

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Urban Agriculture and the Urban

Economy• Urban Greening and Urban Agriculture?

• Placing members of the community as “farmers” in theseareas is an opportunity

• Access to the land would need to be strictly controlled via

agreements, similar to those currently in use in Stellenbosch

through the Stellenbosch Small Farmers Holdings Trust

• Alternative economic models are also required. Eg:

establishment of cooperatives• The connection between UA and alternative localised

economies, such as seed saving groups and seed banks

provide opportunities that are often not considered as

benefits associated with UA - social capital



Seed Saving Workshop

– November 2008

30 people booked

– 245 attendees



Allotments - Ely



Urban Agriculture & Development

• Urban Agriculture will become a core area of development

focus in the future• Strategies and plans to implement this in a manner that

enhances social justice, ensures ecological sustainability and

critical.

• Methodological process which include:

– Creation of an enabling institutional policy framework

– Diagnosis and prioritisation – Elaboration of Action Plans

– Implementation and monitoring

– Institutionalisation / upscaling



CoCT UA Going Forward

• The formal recognition of urban agriculture as an industry

and a social development process that supports thesustainability objectives of the City

• Requires a management team that would be able to respond

.

• There is a need for interventions that go beyond urban

greening, second economy economic interventions and food

security.

• It is essential that urban agriculture becomes a core thrustwithin the planning and development of the City



Urban Agriculture -Linked to all

other Urban Strategies• For urban agriculture to effectively address the

developmental needs of a city it needs to incorporate theintegration in urban land use planning and it needs to include

urban agriculture in overall food security policies

•

environmental policies as well as urban health policies

• The integrated nature of urban agriculture makes it an ideal

development opportunity and one that needs to come to the

forefront of urban planning and management.• Food and nutritional security is not only about agriculture, but

is a truly cross-cutting issue that involves all in the dynamic

context of the population-energy-environment nexus.



UA City of Cape Town

Vanessa Heyman

Tarak Kate

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