Urban agriculture
(Book)

What is the purpose of urban agriculture? Urban agriculture helps create food security for poor Africans / Aldo Lupala and Volker Kreibich ; Urban agriculture helps create food security for poor Americans / Nina Haletky and Owen Taylor ; Urban agriculture feeds and empowers people / Roger Bybee ; Urban agriculture is really about social justice / Phoebe Connelly and Chelsea Ross ; Cuba provides a model for urban agriculture / Alison Blay-Palmer ; Cuba's urban agriculture model is irrelevant for Americans / Andy Fisher

Is urban agriculture economically sustainable? The economic success of urban agriculture depends on the farming method / Paule Moustier and George Danso ; Successful urban agriculture requires financial investment / Green for All ; Urban agriculture is sustainable if treated as a legitimate business / Isaiah Thompson ; Cleveland's for-profit urban gardens are growing / Marty Sterpka ; Urban agriculture accounts for a small but important segment of the sustainable food market / Sena Christian ; Commercial urban agriculture faces political barriers / John Gallagher ; Urban farms can compete economically with industrial agriculture / Mike Duff ; The best business model for urban agriculture has yet to be determined / Cheryl Kollin

How does urban agriculture affect particular groups? Young African Americans are ambivalent about urban agriculture / Krishna Ramanujan ; Latino Americans reconnect with their heritage through urban agriculture / Brenda Becerra ; Urban agriculture represents a women's political movement / Silvia Federici, as told to Max Haiven ; The urban poor need supermarkets, not urban agriculture / Richard Longworth

What is the future of urban agriculture? Urban agriculture facilitates community building / Shanon C. Kearney ; Urban agriculture poses health and safety issues / John E. Mogk, Sarah Kwiatkowski, and Mary J. Weindorf ; Urban planners should look to community farms for city design models / Domenic Vitiello and Michael Nairn ; Urban farmers collide with city rules / Lynn Horsley ; Urban agriculture provides communities more benefits than just food / Sarah Taylor Lovell ; Urban agriculture will increase national security / Kathryn A. Peters.