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FAO's Role In Urban Agriculture
The rapid growth of cities in the developing world is placing enormous demands on urban food supply systems
Urban Agriculture Pioneer Lufa Farms Opens Third Rooftop Greenhouse Farm
There were two important beginnings in Mo Hage’s world last summer: In July he and his wife, Lauren Rathmell, welcomed their daughter into the world. And in June, work started on construction of the third commercial rooftop greenhouse in the burgeoning urban farming company the couple co-founded, Lufa Farms
The Food Tank Summit in Washington, D.C.
We are just two weeks away from our Third Annual Washington, D.C., Food Tank Summit, held on February 2 in partnership with The George Washington University and the World Resources Institute
City Commission OKs Urban Agriculture Changes
Gardening on vacant property will be allowed in Battle Creek after city commissioners unanimously approved ordinance changes on Tuesday
Hospital Farms Grow To Heal
In a recent New York City Food Policy Center newsletter Dr. Robert Graham, founder of FRESH MED NYC, an integrative health practice that emphasizes nutrition along with conventional medicine, said, “During the past four years of the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative, we can applaud some hospitals for thinking differently about the food they offer patients and visitors. Hospitals are beginning to appreciate the old adage of ‘food is medicine.’”
