The time is ripe to support urban agriculture
“Urban agriculturalists have developed a variety of really interesting ways to reduce financial costs and their carbon footprint, including reusing materials, promoting soil carbon retention and reducing fuel use,” Hawes said.
University of Michigan
Study: Policy brief: sustainable agriculture impacts in urban settings make the case for federal investments (DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2024.141.002)
Excerpt:
As Congress reconvenes, a coalition of advocates have published a policy brief calling on representatives to provide more support for urban agriculture through a new iteration of the Farm Bill, which has been in a state of limbo since expiring in September 2023.
Built on the expertise and experiences of urban agriculturalists, along with research from the University of Michigan, the brief urges Congress to fully fund the Department of Agriculture’s Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production for the first time in the office’s six-year history.
First established by the Farm Bill’s passage in 2018, the office wasn’t funded until 2020 and, even then, the funding was at only 20% of its authorized level. By providing more support, the nation could reap even more of urban agriculture’s undeniable social and economic benefits, the brief’s authors said.
“It is possible to unlock extraordinary synergies between the environmental, economic and social benefits of urban agriculture, and this becomes even more likely if policy is supportive of it,” said Jason “Jake” Hawes, an author of the urban agriculture policy brief, which was also published by the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/the-time-is-ripe-to-support-urban-agriculture/
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