→Urban Agriculture -
How to learn from Paris?
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With the rapidly growing cities and globalization, the local food production has been increasingly reduced in favor of industrially and / or globally produced food that is sold through retail chains. In recent years, however, there has been a growing interest in self-production in the city.
Urban agriculture brings many advantages — of a social and integrative nature, and at least as many positive effects in terms of climate protection and adaptation to climate change.
However, in order to be able to become a part of sustainable nutrition for the urban population, the urban agriculture system must be rethought and modernized. The areas possible for cultivation and operation such as roofs and walls of buildings, open spaces in a city must be ascertained and systematically analyzed for their potential in structural, technical, legal and practical terms.
Operating models — from voluntary work to employment models must be surveyed and tested. Last but not least, it makes sense to harmonize the agricultural activities with the goals of the city in regard to climate change adaptation and protection, i.e. to promote urban agriculture where cooling, rainwater management, etc. appear particularly necessary. And to stimulate the promotion of business models there, for example in the form of public-private partnership concepts.
Urban agriculture brings many advantages — of a social and integrative nature, and at least as many positive effects in terms of climate protection and adaptation to climate change.
However, in order to be able to become a part of sustainable nutrition for the urban population, the urban agriculture system must be rethought and modernized. The areas possible for cultivation and operation such as roofs and walls of buildings, open spaces in a city must be ascertained and systematically analyzed for their potential in structural, technical, legal and practical terms.
Operating models — from voluntary work to employment models must be surveyed and tested. Last but not least, it makes sense to harmonize the agricultural activities with the goals of the city in regard to climate change adaptation and protection, i.e. to promote urban agriculture where cooling, rainwater management, etc. appear particularly necessary. And to stimulate the promotion of business models there, for example in the form of public-private partnership concepts.
Paris is one of the great pioneers in the field of urban agriculture. Only recently one of the largest urban farms in the world opened. Furthermore, Paris has numerous areas that are made available to urban agriculture. During this session, the various economic, social and political challenges that such urban agriculture entails will be discussed.
In this project initiative we want to deal with all of these questions. The aim is to develop a funding application that includes the potential analysis of urban areas described above, as well as the development of business models for the operation of urban agricultural areas in cooperation with the public sector.
Using the example of Paris, already functioning urban agriculture is being analyzed and possible overall solutions for other European cities are being developed.
In this project initiative we want to deal with all of these questions. The aim is to develop a funding application that includes the potential analysis of urban areas described above, as well as the development of business models for the operation of urban agricultural areas in cooperation with the public sector.
Using the example of Paris, already functioning urban agriculture is being analyzed and possible overall solutions for other European cities are being developed.
Dates
- Registration: from August 05, 2020
- Congress: 24–25.09.2020
The Questions are:
- Analysis of the city’s potential with regard to structural, legal and practical issues
— Types of production for the following areas: roofs, facades, courtyards, urban wastelands
— Production process for different production areas along the entire value chain
— Structural issues (access to the roof, statics, technical solutions for areas that are not ideally suited, roof waterproofing, etc.)
— Legal issues: zoning, tenancy law, trade law, building regulations How can Knartz & Greenery work together? - Harmonization with strategic goals of the city, in particular cooling, increasing biodiversity, rainwater management
- Development of business models for urban agriculture. Networking of businesses for sales, cross-connection to the ÖkoKauf program of the City of Vienna
- Role of the public sector to enable and promote urban agriculture
- Development of an umbrella organization that is responsible for information, sales, purchasing, marketing, etc.
- Food security, regionality, sustainability
We are looking for:
For the project “Urban Agriculture” we are looking for a maximum of 25 participants with the following backgrounds:
- Agriculture / gardening
- Gastronomy
- Landscape architecture
- Civil engineer
- Spatial planning
- City administration
- Experts in funding options
- Civilian population