For the next three months, I will be shadowing the Breaker Urban Agriculture team.
Among these figure water-harvesting technologies and drip irrigation, as well as technologies that recycle grey water in peri-urban agriculture.
The 13 youthful participants in the urban agriculture Challenge come from a wide range of different disciplines, including architecture, creative writing, economics and public health.
Check out the video below to learn more about that project and hope that the suitably inspired Breaker participants can create something equally as innovative for their urban agriculture Challenge.
Urban agriculture has enormous potential: It can theoretically feed far more people in a healthier manner, while simultaneously reducing fossil fuel consumption, but it also faces enormous obstacles (technical, economic, social).
To continue the interpretation, the story of Cain and Abel may be taken as an illustration of the zero-sum game of primogeniture, as well as an allegory for the slaughter of nomadic pasturage by urban agriculture.
The next Challenge, which kicked off last week, is tackling urban agriculture, a radical approach to growing our food inside our cities (think more skyscraper farms than flower box herb gardens, although the project will address both).
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This is about how the over 300 co-operative urban gardens of the city of Havana, which includes 35000 acres of land being used for urban agriculture, make it possible to ensure the food safety of Cubans, by providing each citizen 280g of fruits and vegetables every day, and provide work to many unemployed people.
Suddenly society was faced with dramatically reduced amounts of hydrocarbon energy, and the result was a fundamental reorganization of food production, leading to a boom in urban organic agriculture, which requires fewer inputs than conventional farming.
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Stimulating commercial agriculture and reversing the tide of migration to urban areas is essential.
Among other participating agencies are the U.S. departments of Agriculture, Interior, Education, and Housing and Urban Development.
Agriculture looks different outside of the ministry, which pours billions of urban taxpayers' dollars into supporting the production of rice and keeping out imports.
Like manufacturers and homebuilders before them, farmers have found themselves in the crosshairs of urban aesthetes and green activists who hope to impose their own Utopian vision of agriculture.
The film highlights key water quality problems such as lack of access to safe water and sanitation, inefficient wastewater management in urban areas, water pollution caused by intensive use of nutrients and chemicals in agriculture, the invisible threat of new and emerging pollutants in water and the economic costs of water quality degradation.
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