Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture
Publisher: ChangeLab Solutions
Author(s): Wooten, Heather, Ackerman, Amy
Published Date: 2012
Document Type: Report
Format:
Electronic
Free of Cost: Yes
Urban agriculture refers to a wide range of activities involving the raising, cultivation, processing, marketing, and distribution of food in urban areas. Communities around the country are looking to promote healthier eating by encouraging urban agriculture, especially through backyard gardens, community gardens, and urban farms. This toolkit provides a framework and model language for land use policies that local policymakers can tailor to promote and sustain urban agriculture in their communities.
Growing Food Connections Topic(s):
community food production
Main Food Topics:
agriculture, agriculture preservation, food access, food assistance, food availability, food distribution, food marketing, food processing, food procurement, food production, food retail, food security, food system
Sub Food Topics:
Affordability, agricultural practices, buy local, community garden, community supported agriculture, corner store or bodega, culturally appropriate foods, farm, farm to school, farmers market, fast-food, food infrastructure, food stamps, fruit, grocery store, liquor store, living wage, low-income, mobile market, people of color, produce, restaurant, SNAP, supermarket, transportation, underserved population(s), value-added, vegetables, vulnerable population(s), WIC
Public Policy Topics:
Funds and grants, Plans, Programs, Public investment
Geographic Scale:
Nation, Neighborhood, Region, State/province, Urban
Addresses food security needs of underserved populations: No
