What is Urban Agriculture?
Urban Agriculture is the growing of food in or around a village, town or city. Food security, food safety and income generation are all key motivations for the practice. Direct access to fresh fruit, and vegetables through urban agriculture can improve food security and food safety. Urban Agriculture has a long history from the Egyptians through both WWI, WW2 and the depressions that followed. So what is the difference between food security and food safety?Food security has to do with the on going availability of food. This has existed throughout history and often food has been stored for times of famine. The term 'food security' was only established as a formal concept at the World Food Conference in 1974,
Food safety is specifically around the handling, preparation and storage of food. I am particularly interested in trying to avoid pesticide and herbicide residues that might be found on the fruit and vegetables that we buy in stores.
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