The Rise of Urban Agriculture: an Epiphenomenon or a Slow Revolution?

Urban Farm DB summary

This joint interview with Christine Aubry and Jean-Noel Consales addresses debates around the resurgence of urban agriculture in cities of the Global North, where public, private, associative and entrepreneurial initiatives are spreading. It notes broad enthusiasm about the range of services urban agriculture provides, food as well as social and environmental roles, alongside dissenting views that dismiss non-professional agriculture as peripheral to meeting citizens' food needs, a passing fad, or urban leisure rather than real agriculture. The interviewees point to the great variety of urban agriculture forms as a breeding ground for innovation and a possible sign of major transformation in the agricultural world.