Can urban agriculture play a key role in food security?

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Urban agriculture can conjure up images of small plots of land amidst concrete jungles, oases where city dwellers can come together, bond with neighbors and reconnect with nature.

However, urban agriculture is an opportunity to bring large-scale food production to cities, leveraging new technologies and innovation to address sustainability and resilience issues in the food system that are exacerbated by climate change and instability politics.

Growing food in urban areas offers people the opportunity to transform their relationship with consumption by becoming producers themselves, says Kai Sawyer, founder of Tokyo Urban Permaculture, a project he started in 2011 with the mission of promoting a holistic approach to land management and settlement planning.

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