This was the question posed to the students who participated in the Community Agriculture Program with whom we partnered with to educate youth about urban agriculture.
What did they have to say?
"I think that urban agriculture cannot end world poverty. In the words of Alleycat Acres, an urban gardening project located in Seattle:
“we can't legally sell anything we grow because of city laws”
“our farm needs a lot of input to run”
“we have 11 dedicated volunteers”
For urban agriculture to work, three things are needed:
numero uno: Cities such as Seattle must repeal limits on food consumption so that urban agriculture can generate a profit.
numero dos: Urban gardening projects need to get more volunteers to help. Otherwise, little food can be made.
So, you have seen the problems with urban agriculture. Seattle and other cities must allow urban agriculture to reap the rewards. Farms like Alleycat Acres should hire more volunteers. Problems like these are seriously hindering urban agriculture potential to change the world." -Matthew P.
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"Does urban agriculture have a positive impact on poverty? I think it does because of the effects that it does. If we can continue to keep this up we can prevent poverty. Here are a few reasons why: the first reason is because it can produce fresh produce and meat providing valuable food to those who don’t have enough. With this it will increase the amount of food because for some families they don’t know when there next meal will be so with this they will have more food. People from around the world are growing crops to feed themselves and to sell for more money the other half is shipped around the world to different countries. If more food is being grown around the world than more people won’t go to bed hungry every night they’ll be stronger and have healthier lives." -Malaika H.
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Want to see more of what the students thought about Urban Agriculture? Read their responses here.
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