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Urban Agriculture: Overview of the Field and Early Models of Urban Food Governance

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This chapter will present an overview of the field Urban Agriculture (UA) scholarship from the global North and South. Using an urban governance framework, this overview will focus on the relationship between UA and food security and the use of urban space for UA activities, from earlier periods of need, to the contemporary era of a globalising urban population, and to what extent UA is a solution to, or is symptomatic of, urban decline and a misunderstood fact of urban life. These issues are intertwined and pertinent, as social movements for urban food activism are clearly increasing in cities, globally, with multi-scalar impacts and policy outcomes that indicate the connected and disconnected nature of urban dwellers and their institutions.

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