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4 unusual facts about Urban agriculture


Urban agriculture

Some of the Incredible Edible Todmorden plots have been permission plots while others have been examples of guerilla gardening.

Greater Mumbai, formed by City Island and Salsette Island, is the largest city in India with a population of 16.4 million, according to data collected by the census of 2001.

Todmorden is a village of 17,000 inhabitants in Yorkshire, United Kingdom with an innovative successful urban agriculture model.

In the early 1990s at Ain Shams University, a group of agriculture professors developed an initiative of growing organic vegetables to suit densely populated cities of Egypt.



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Carl Boileau

Boileau collected thirty thousand signatures to launch city-wide discussions on urban agriculture; in early 2013, city councillor Marvin Rotrand indicated that many of the ideas brought forward at the resulting public meetings had already been or would be incorporated into city policy.