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Urban Farming: Beyond Food production

Urban Greenhouse Challenge has been set up to explore the potential of urban farming in all its forms.

Wageningen University organized the Kick-off Event of the Urban Farming Challenge, “Urban farming beyond food production” which will take place on 3 November 2021, from 4.00 to 5.30 PM CET.

As metropoles all over the world are encouraging urban food production, agriculture is making its way back to the cities. Urban farming in its modern forms looks cool (check #rooftopgarden), helps to green and cool down urban heat islands and produces food that has positive associations: local, fresh, sustainable.

Urban Greenhouse Challenge has been set up to explore the potential of urban farming in all its forms. The third edition of this international student competition focuses on urban farming as a catalyst for social impact. How can it create benefits for local residents? What is needed to design a socially inclusive concept? Can urban farms play a role in bringing back social justice?

In the opening event of the Urban Greenhouse Challenge#3, Dr Sabine O’Hara (University District of Columbia), Tiffany Tsui (Vertical Farm Institute) and Dr Sigrid Wertheim-Heck (Wageningen University & Research) will discuss those and other questions related to impact of the urban farming beyond food production. The event will be presented by Simone Ritzer, Programme Facilitator Wageningen Dialogues.

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