Enough
Food in the
City?
Some emerging city
farmers in their quest to address problems of
urban food
supply and low
income give homegrown solutions.
City dwellers
need inexpensive and ample supplies of fresh and enriching food. And this need builds up fast as time goes by while arable urban lands ideal for food production undoubtedly shrink. Consequently, the demand for food in not so- distant future becomes more constraining. This imminent problem has created urban food raisers in built-up vicinity. Not only food plants, these new farmers also rear livestock, poultry, and even fish in so compact an area.
City residents especially those from the lower brackets feel insecure about their food supply because food is fast becoming a very costly item. In developing countries such as India, Thailand, Bolivia, and Egypt, sources revealed that about 69 to 89% of resident income is spent on food.
Some factors trigger the stepping up of urban farming such as reduced household income, inflation, quick-paced urbanization, uneven food distribution, drought, negligent city ordinance, among others.
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