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What is urban agriculture?

What is urban agriculture?

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This podcast is part of a series of episodes from the UCL's Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. Co-hosts Marco Zunino & Natasha Tennant discuss the phenomenon of urban agriculture with guests Professor Robert Biel from the UCL's Development Planning Unit & Billy Styles, lead grower at Stepney City Farm.

The podcast explores the phenomenon or urban agriculture including:

  • Alternative models of urban agriculture: the city farm, community gardens, allotments & guerrilla gardening.
  • The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on urban growing.
  • The types of urban spaces that can be used as productive spaces and the opportunities and challenges to doing so.
  • Urban agriculture as providing space for innovation and to enhance diversity. Increased diversity allows for the creation of stronger and more resilient food systems.
  • Lessons that can be learnt from the Global South and how we can move from a globally exploitative model of food production to a more sustainable model based on the city region.
  • The role that can be played by consumers to enable change.
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