What role does urban and peri-urban agriculture play in city food systems in the context of COVID and climate change?
January 21st . 12pm CET
The majority of the world’s population lives in cities, reaching 65% in 2050. Providing ready access to healthy fresh food, bringing communities together, and educating urban populations about the food system are amongst the drivers for urban and peri-urban agriculture in many cities throughout the world. This webinar will explore how this has developed as part of strategic city-wide approaches to the food system, and will ask whether this activity is more or less important and practical in the context of current crises including COVID and climate change.
Speakers:
- Christian Bugge Henriksen, FoodSHIFT2030 Project coordinator, University of Copenhagen
- Elsa Chiffard-Carricaburu & Hugues Fortuna, Ville d’Avignon, FoodSHIFT 2030 Lab Avignon
- Sally Bourdon, FabLab, IAAC, FoodSHIFT 2030 Lab Barcelona
- Bjorn Low, Executive Director at Edible Garden City, Singapore
- Ben Reynolds, Deputy CEO at Sustain (chair)
- Rasmus Bjerngaard, Co-Founder CEO at Nextfood