Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Multimedia Assignment 1
Multimedia Assignment 1

This first video by Nic Esposito talks about the necessity of urban agriculture and of permaculture, but more than that, all through the video are mentions of various social issues that urban agriculture can help solve, unemployment, lack of fresh, nutritious food, a disenfranchised population and more.  In addition he briefly mentions receiving support from city officials, forming partnerships with the community and having the community run the agricultural system.  While he doesn’t go into a lot of depth (it is a relatively short video) he covers a lot of breadth and provides information on how such systems can work.

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