What isUrban Agriculture?
Urban agriculture is a revolution in tomorrow'shorticulture. The concept is to bring crops closer to the consumer.
Adapting traditional agriculture in city centers to make it urban agriculture.
It's true that all these agricultural and horticultural activities have existed in cities since Antiquity, for reasons of proximity to the end consumer, as well as the proximity of crops for convenient supplies to shops.
With the growth of large cities such as Paris and the Ile de France, with over 10,000,000 inhabitants, or Lille, Lyon and Marseille, cities have created housing for crafts, industry and urban agriculture. Fields have gradually disappeared from cities, but smaller plots are still found, as are many gardens, which still play an important role.
With pollution, junk food, the often unrecognized provenance of fruit and vegetables, and the toxicity resulting from the use of pesticides that we eat without any real traceability, it's important that urban agriculture close to home develops.
That's why today, on a global scale, we're seeing a new impetus with more and more aquaculture, vegetable gardens and small-scale livestock farming. We're also seeing a population returning to its roots and finding a growing interest inurban agriculture projects whose aim is the ecological transition to sustainable food and well-being. Let's save the planet and eat healthily.
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Urban agriculture takes many different forms, with different objectives such as food production, biodiversity, technological challenges, innovating, inventing, optimizing yields such as vertical cultivation, discovering new trends such as indoor cultivation, indoor vegetable gardening, terrace and balcony cultivation, and harvesting the fruits of one's labor with fruits and vegetables grown with love and passion.
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Urban agriculture takes many different forms, with a variety of objectives, such as shared plots, individual and/or collective multi-garden market gardening zones, vertical farms for market gardening or aquaponics, and sometimes on terraces or rooftops, enabling various types of production of local economic interest (vegetables, fruit, in urban or peri-urban areas). Cultivated and built-up areas blend more or less seamlessly into urban life.
This urban agriculture often also enriches our towns and cities.
Urbanization and peri-urbanization, particularly in cities in so-called poor countries.
Indeed, urban and peri-urban agriculture is already used by some 700 million city dwellers (around one in four people worldwide), and if the trend continues, by 2030 almost all population growth will take place in the cities of emerging countries, and around 60% of the inhabitants of these countries will be urban gardeners.
Vertical farming offers the prospect of relative food self-sufficiency close to home.
Paris is set to become a green city by 2050, and urban agriculture is helping to clean up our polluted cities.
Installing a greenhouse in your garden allows you to produce a wide range of fruits and vegetables.
Growing indoors is the best way to achieve sustainable development, with all types of plants harvested in record time. Grow a wider variety of plants than outdoors.
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