Database research record2018·Mexico
Producción de alimentos sobre el asfalto: agricultura urbana para el desarrollo sostenible de la ciudad
Silvia Iveth Moreno Gaytán, Mercedes A. Jiménez Velázquez, Martín Hernández Juárez
Revista española de estudios agrosociales y pesqueros/Revista española de estudios agrosociales y pesqueros
Urban Farm DB summary
A qualitative social-research case study, conducted 2014-2017 in the eastern Metropolitan Zone of the Valle de México, examined how the organization Union de Colonos e Inquilinos Solicitantes de Vivienda Libertad practices urban agriculture in the CANANEA housing complex as part of popular-neighborhood strategies for food sovereignty. The case study concludes that agroecological, fair-trade urban agriculture generates food-sovereignty dynamics at the city scale that challenge conventional production, consumption and trade models.