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Policies for a shareable city #11: Urban agriculture

Cities should be doing everything in their power to facilitate localized food production, and a key component of that is enabling urban agriculture and community gardening. Peak oil, the breakdown of our industrial food system, the high cost of sustainably produced food — these and other factors lend to an urgent need to use every plot of available city land for food growing.

December 6, 2011

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