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Urban agriculture has been receiving renewed interest since 2008. A major focus of this renewed interest is ensuring access to healthier, fresher food in urban population centers in the United States to improve public health. It is likely that urban agriculture can expand to meet a significant portion of this (Brown and Jameton 2000; Mogk et al. 2010). Certainly, it has been found to be successful in improving food security in Cuba and in developing countries (Altieri et al. 1999; Zezza and Tasciottie 2010). Securing access to land can be an obstacle to developing urban agriculture. The EPA and corresponding State and Tribal Brownfield program may assist in that development by converting former Brownfields sites into areas safe and suitable for food production.
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Carroll, A. (2016). Brownfields as Sites for Urban Farms. In: Brown, S., McIvor, K., Hodges Snyder, E. (eds) Sowing Seeds in the City. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7453-6_24
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