India: Bengaluru urgently needs to prioritise urban agriculture
Agriculture needs to be encouraged and supported within and along the fringes of Bengaluru, especially in the villages that are being rapidly swallowed up by the city’s sprawl
By Ananya Rao
Ananya Rao is a Master of Environmental Science student at Yale School of the Environment.
Deccan Herald
Dec 12, 2024
Excerpt:
While fluctuations in weather are a crucial contributing factor to this spike in costs, food prices in Bengaluru are also tied to a larger, less recognised, set of transformations in the city’s agricultural patterns. The expansion of the city into the surrounding rural areas is converting productive agricultural land within and adjacent to the city to settlements, and simultaneously, agriculture is being pushed to forested areas further away from the city.
This displacement of agriculture is not only contributing to increasing food prices, it is also destroying farmer livelihoods and worsening environmental health within the city. To combat these crises, it is necessary to support and protect urban agriculture within the city.
Cropland within and along the fringes of Bengaluru city has steadily been disappearing over the past two decades. A study conducted in 2023 found that between 1973 and 2022, agricultural land within the city declined occupying 58.59 per cent of the land area to occupying just 32.9 per cent per cent and this was accompanied by an increase in built up area from 3.85 per cent to 55.71 per cent. The trend of converting agriculture to built-up land has continued, as both the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) have been acquiring farmland for industrial and residential developments.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/india-bengaluru-urgently-needs-to-prioritise-urban-agriculture/
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