Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge - Public and Academic Symposium
The Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and Other Strategies for Sustainable Development symposium will bring together more than one hundred international policymakers, scholars, farmers, planners, and activists. The purpose of the symposium is to create alliances, devise strategies and policies, and set a research agenda to address sustainable metropolitan development using a paradigm that includes food and farmland.
The goal is to focus attention on
- the importance of agricultural lands within the regional metropolitan framework
- environmental and other benefits of ecological agriculture to healthy communities
- socio-economic issues at the urban edge
the interdependence of urban and rural land and communities
In addition to identifying the urgent questions we need to work on, the symposium will provide a forum for presenting successful models for land-use planning and policies that can nourish the economic, environmental, and cultural vitality of cities and metropolitan regions worldwide.
The Symposium is sponsored by the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies and the Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge program. Additional support and partners include: the Farrand Endowment of the Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Department; the American Farmland Trust; and the Roots of Change Fund. Registration information will be available soon; visit http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/agmetroedge for updates. For further information, contact Sibella Kraus at AME, 510-642-5233 (sibellakraus@berkeley.edu).
The goal is to focus attention on
- the importance of agricultural lands within the regional metropolitan framework
- environmental and other benefits of ecological agriculture to healthy communities
- socio-economic issues at the urban edge
the interdependence of urban and rural land and communities
In addition to identifying the urgent questions we need to work on, the symposium will provide a forum for presenting successful models for land-use planning and policies that can nourish the economic, environmental, and cultural vitality of cities and metropolitan regions worldwide.
The Symposium is sponsored by the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies and the Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge program. Additional support and partners include: the Farrand Endowment of the Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Department; the American Farmland Trust; and the Roots of Change Fund. Registration information will be available soon; visit http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/agmetroedge for updates. For further information, contact Sibella Kraus at AME, 510-642-5233 (sibellakraus@berkeley.edu).