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Urban & Community Based Ag: Growing the Movement, Cultivating Policy Change2
1. Urban Agriculture:
Growing Healthy
Sustainable Places
(PAS 563)
Urban & Community-Based Agriculture:
Growing the Movement,
Cultivating Policy Change
CFSC Annual Conference/Oakland
November 8, 2011
Martin Bailkey
Growing Power, Inc.
2. Contents
What is urban agriculture?
History, definition, benefits, risks, prerequisites
Facilitating urban agriculture through planning practice
Visioning and goal setting, plan making, implementation
mechanisms, site design and development, other public-sector
programs and policies
11 case studies
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City (KS/MO), Milwaukee,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle/King Co, Toronto,
Vancouver
Lessons learned
Appendices
Plans, policies, zoning regulations, animal control ordinances,
other municipal policies
5. Facilitating Urban Ag through
Planning
Long-range community visioning and goal
setting
Plan-making
Standards, policies, and incentives to
achieve desired plan goals
Influencing development project outcomes
Influencing public investment decisions
6. Case Study Research
11 North American cities
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City (KS/MO), Milwaukee,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle/King Co,
Toronto, Vancouver
Urban agriculture practitioners
and advocates, local government
officials, planners
Local planning documents, ordinances,
regulations, policies
7. Case Study Topics
Background & history of the metropolitan region
Major urban agriculture stakeholders & actors
Extent of stakeholder collaboration
Local government and planning contexts
Food-related studies done in the jurisdiction
Local policies & programs having an impact on
urban agriculture
Brownfield assessment & remediation for urban
agriculture
8. City Approaches to Urban Agriculture
Depend On
Political leadership and vision
Grassroots advocacy from urban
agriculture community
Boundary spanning and bridging
work from nonprofit sector