Urban agriculture diversity and food security – panel session
We organise a panel session titled “Urban agriculture diversity and food security” at the International Association for Landscape Ecology’s IALE 2023 World Congress which will take place in Nairobi (Kenya) from 10-15 July 2023. Contributors wanted.
Summary of the session
With urbanization, the concentration of population within urban settings and the economic polarization, contribute to generating economical et spatial inequality. Recently, the health crisis of Covid19 has amplified within the cities inequalities regarding access to food but also to green spaces and nature in general (Nikolli and Girault, 2021). This situation has revealed an increasing demand for implementing urban gardens, and interest for self-production. In particular, it is clear that we need to construct territorial responses to contribute to a resilience not based on urgency. Other considerations bring to light the necessity of implementing fresh fruits and vegetables production in the cities as these produces are mostly absent from food banks with its, sometimes inadequate, distributive aspect. The heat island effect also enables the local production of “exotic” food.
In a way, urban agriculture (UA) in its diversity can respond to these expectations (Lal, 2020). A wide diversity of UA forms has been developed (Aubry et al., 2022) contributing differently to food supply. Although, a greater contribution of family or private gardens more than community gardens is frequently highlighted (Pourias, 2014; Darly et al., 2021), the participation in these projects leads precarious people to enhance their diet, increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables and becoming actors of their diet (Darmon et al., 2018). Moreover, recent studies demonstrate that projects combining food production and processing improve psychosocial skills (decision-making, stress management…) of precarious people as well as being a vector of emancipation on food issues and more (Scherer, 2018). It also enables inhabitants to manage surpluses at some periods and to limit wastage. We would like to interrogate the capacity of forms of urban agriculture to participate in food, ecological and social resilience within the city. Who are the actors, policies, spaces and devices activated to build a more livelihoods cities?
Organizer(s)
Giacchè Giulia – AgroParisTech, Paris – France
Lelièvre Agnès – AgroParisTech, Paris – France
Aubry Christine – AgroParisTech, Paris – France
Provent Fanny – AgroParisTech, Paris – France
If you are interested in contributing to our session with a communication, please submit a 300-word abstract by 15 March 2023 on the Paper/Poster Abstracts submission portal.
The latest notification on abstract acceptance is the 1st April 2023.
You should select “Symposium/Paper Session” as Session Type, and then select “ Urban agriculture diversity and food security ” as your 1st preference.
Please note that we are aiming for 80% in-person attendance at IALE 2023. Hence, there are NO ‘Fully Virtual Sessions’.
