Visiting Urban Agriculture Professors from France Join Canadian Forum
This will take place on Monday 18 September, from 2:30 to 6 PM (EDT), in person as well as online.
Toronto Urban Growers
Growing a Greener City in Paris + Toronto
Sept 2023
We are happy to announce that a team of researchers/professors based in Paris will be hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), as part of Urban Ag Week Toronto. A public forum will be held during which four team members will share insights about urban agriculture in Paris and elsewhere in Europe, in dialogue with four local respondents. This will take place on Monday 18 September, from 2:30 to 6 PM (EDT), in person as well as online. Details are as follows.
Growing a Greener City in Paris + Toronto
Panel #1: How to build support for urban agriculture
Christine Aubry (National Institute of Research in Agronomy and Environment/AgroParisTech): How AgroParisTech/INRAE supports public and private urban agriculture actors
Taoufik Souami (Paris School of Urban Planning/Greater Paris Urban Development Chair): Agriculture in urban development projects in Greater Paris
Panel #2: Food as urban ecology
Agnès Lelièvre (AgroParisTech/National Institute of Research in Agronomy and Environment): Resource-use efficiency for sustainable city food systems: Lessons from two European programmes
Giulia Giacchè (National Institute of Research in Agronomy and Environment/AgroParisTech): Urban agriculture as a source of ecological and cultural services
