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TO DO's

Include issues you have learnt this week in terms of power relations and important actors, integrating a critical political economy approach to systems thinking.

Remember to share your work in the appropriate super challenge Padlet with your group number (climate change, food and waste).

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Problem: Growing urban populations are placing pressure on rural farming areas.

Solution: Integrate urban agriculture (e.g., vertical farming, rooftop gardens) into city infrastructure.

Benefit: Cities designed with food production in mind, reduced food miles, local jobs, community spaces & social benefits?

Scenario/Context: By 2047, urban spaces in cities like (decide on location) have large-scale vertical farms that feed local populations.

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In many cities, land is scarce, and access is often controlled by powerful actors (governments, developers, landlords). Urban agriculture competes with other land uses such as housing and commercial development.

Q's for Consideration

Who controls land use & water access in cities? Water pricing- is it privatized?

Urban planning rules deciding if/where farms can be set up. Do they prioritize commercial or residential projects over green spaces?

How do large grocery chains and global supply chains dominate food distribution?

How local food co-ops or farmers’ markets challenge the power of large grocery chains.

How gov/city/district policies and laws either support or restrict urban food production and distribution/ community green spaces? Do they offer supports/incentives/grants?

Is there urban composting facilities for households that could contribute to urban gardens?

Affordability of locally grown food vs. supermarket prices.

Are low-income communities/households excluded from the benefits of urban agriculture due to lack of space/resources/money?

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I started playing around with breaking down Urban Agriculture into our more specific issue at the medium-level system and household level.

Just a draft visualisation that we can amend :)

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Government and Policy Makers (Municipal & National)

Urban planners & developers

Regulatory bodies

Urban Farmers (individuals and collectives)

Community groups & environmental groups

NGOs related to food distribution/access/social justice/poverty

Local waste organisations/corporations

Urban residents, and consumers

Schools and educational institutes

Agricultural Co-ops, Agri supply businesses

Local markets/ food distributors/ retail outlets

Agri tech companies

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Examples of Urban Farms from our localities

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Examples of Urban Farms from our localities

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We can add in the comments examples of farms we can refer to as urban models :)

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Just brainstorming on how best to wrangle this data collection bit.

"Decide what data you will gather and how (find a visual/written/numerical way to measure it, examples of formats: picture diary, written diary, excel sheet)."

I'm thinking the following:

Boundaries: Weekly household consumption (no restaurants?)

Process: Participants track normal grocery purchases for a week,(careful to not have bias). Then identify what portions of their weekly consumption can be considered "fresh" vs processed. Using the packaging / labelling / common sense of the fresh products, identify its origin. Can log all of this in an excel sheet and then do approximate calculations on food miles from origin -> point of consumption. This will allow us to average out all miles per individual and make really simple graphics based on individual or type of product to visualize our data. Will be interesting to see differences!

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Who best develops an urban food waste program? Private business vs local legislation vs PPP.

How best to socially frame an urban food waste system to not fall into capitalistic traps? Need to frame as a "public service" to avoid commodification of local produce. (Many urban farming places around me are "boutique" places for the wealthy to purchase local produce)

How best to define success for an urban food program? (avoid the "scaling up" trap of capitalism)

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Function of Urban Agriculture: Feed people with local food.

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Outflow: Environmental Damages (e.g., flooding, salt pollution, acidification, eutrophication)

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Outflow: Environmental Damages (e.g., flooding, salt pollution, acidification, eutrophication)

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Outflow: Space Converted to Another Use (e.g., solar/wind energy generation, gathering spaces)

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Outflow: Space Converted to Another Use (e.g., solar/wind energy generation, gathering spaces)

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Outflow: Space Used for Non-Food Growing

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Outflow: Space Used for Non-Food Growing

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Urban planners and developers

Urban Farmers (individuals and collectives)

Community and environmental groups

Regulators

Policy Makers

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Urban planners and developers

Regulatory bodies

Policy Makers

Urban residents

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Stock: Plants Suitable for Urban Environments

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Stock: Plants Suitable for Urban Environments