Category FAQs Search : Urban Farming
Question: Planning for Urban Agriculture: A Review of Tools and Strategies for Urban Planners
Answer: Urban agriculture may potentially pose hazards and provide benefits to urban dwellers. Given the
urban population growth world-wide, the phenomenon of urban agriculture as a food, income and
employment generator is likely to increase.
Urban planners (especially in less-developed countries) need to find ways to capture the benefits
and counter or prevent the potential problems of urban agriculture activities. Urban planners shape
patterns of land use and the built environment in and around cities to manifest a desired future
urban state, and to distribute public benefits to citizens. In recent years, traditional, often technical,
approaches to planning and managing urban areas have been altered by such trends as increased
public participation in community decision making. Urban planners in less-developed countries
may experience additional challenges, lacking the resources, training or a supportive planning
policy context to assist them in their jobs. Increasingly, planners are seeking alternate ways to
achieve urban planning goals. The changing role and powers of urban planners have implications
for how planners can facilitate or support urban agriculture. Identifying the tools and strategies
available to urban planners to assist urban agriculture practice was the subject of this report.
(Source: , 23 Sep 2021)
Source Link: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/33697/114252.pdf?sequence=4