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- For example, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 titled "sustainable cities and communities" focuses on making cities more inclusive, resilient and sustainable.
- Today, the United Nations has taken many steps towards implementing and promoting urban agriculture. As a matter of fact, the United Nations has a branch just devoted to agriculture called the FAO. The UN Development Programme has also published a book on educating people about their thesis for the development of urban farming
- As it gets more and more challenging to provide affordable food for everyone as the pressure on traditional farming has continually increased.The realistic hope is that urban farms will be able to provide some families an additional source of healthy, low-cost produce.These community gardens and green roofs can help filter out local air pollution, cool down cities in the summertime, and retain precipitation.
- In conclusion, through innovative methods of urban agriculture,this multidisciplinary approach strengthens community relationships, increases civic engagement in low-income communities, allows for greener and more sustainable cities, teaches us multiple new skills, decreases greenhouse gas emissions, and help put an end to agriculture's negative consequences.
- As seen in this map, the distribution of food in the United States is still uneven and there are many impoverished areas with a lack access to fresh, healthy food. Studies also show that these areas with limited access to healthy food end up with populations of less healthy people.In addition, due to urbanization, the distance between suitable farming land and the huge populations who consume it is also growing, raising the impact of transportation. This causes the cost of buying fresh produce in supermarkets to be high because of the additional transportational fee that it took for the fresh fruits and vegetables to reach the city.
- Because of the costs to maintain a healthy diet, many choose a calorie-sufficient one instead. As research from Harvard School of Public Health shows, eating healthier would increase food costs by $550 per year, being a real burden for lower income families.According to statistics,one in three Americans born in 2000 will be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Healthy food is the ticket to prevent these problemsThe good news is, urban farming can combat this as it eliminates the transport from rural areas to urban.This can make fresh foods much more affordable as an individual can grow their own food hence shortening the stages of production, processing, and distribution.
- As seen in this graph, the demand for urbanly grown produce is only growing more and more. Therefore, there is no doubt that urban agriculture has benefitted these local businesses.
- Urban farming can also help stimulate the local economy through job creation, income generation, and the growth of small businesses.In addition, the commercial value of products in annual urban agriculture will be about 5.5 million dollars.The gardens will attract businesses and residents and are catalysts for business development and promotion of city life.
- Governments have employed various measures to maintain fair income and prices. For example, in a capitalist economy such as the US, tariffs and restrictions are still put to work as a form of government limitation.The US government, despite having a capitalist economy, uses these restrictions such as quotas for imported produce as the products will result in higher prices, encouraging domestic consumers to purchase domestically grown produce instead. Urban farming, if grown on a small scale, can disregard these agricultural economics as it allows an individual to produce their own goods.
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