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Category Archives: Civic Agriculture
Role of local governments in civic ag
Broad areas that governments are getting involved in civic ag: 1. “Encouraging local economic development efforts to support community-based food processing activities.” example in GR of the new downtown market with business incubator and community kitchen space 2. “Fostering land … Continue reading
Local problem-solving
efforts described by Lyson “have one thing in common: they area all local problem-solving activities organized around agriculture and food.” p. 103
CSAs
CSAs can be part of urban ag – with pickup in urban locations they often supply primarily urban customers. Groundswell pickup in downtown GR at a women’s shelter. Leftover food goes to the shelter and there is another food pantry … Continue reading
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Local economic multiplier
Supporting a local agricultural system has the same effect as supporting local businesses – keeping local money in the economy and a higher local economic multiplier, keeping money in the local economy longer. p. 102
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Civic ag definition
“Civic agriculture is the embedding of local agricultural and food production in the community.” p. 101
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Civic approach to agriculture
“Only recently has a civic agriculture paradigm emerged to challenge the wisdom of conventional commodity agriculture. The emerging civic approach is associated with a relocalizing of production. From this perspective, agriculture and food endeavors are seen as engines of local … Continue reading
Laying the groundwork for social change
“Creative new forms of community development, built around the regeneration of local food systems, may eventually generate sufficient economic and political power to mute the more socially and environmentally destructive manifestations of the global marketplace.” p. 98 about building the … Continue reading
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Building relationships
Civic ag activities “become a powerful template around which to build non- or extramarket relationships between persons, social groups, and institutions that have been distanced from each other.” p. 98
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Urban gardening as part of urban revival
“Recently, the Trends Journal noted that urban gardening will likely be among the most visible manifestations of a new urban revival – a revival that sees neighborhoods and the groups and organizations embedded in them as the building blocks of … Continue reading
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Gardens grow civil society
William Rees: “urban farming can contribute to the rebirth of civil society and development of community as neighbors cooperate in the establishment, management and supervision of community-owned or accessible garden plots.” footnote 18 on p. 96 in Lyson
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