Increasingly people in urban and peri-urban areas are growing food.  There are many advantages to this: producing more good quality food,  bringing producers and consumers closer together, bridging the  rural/urban divide, improving food security, creating land justice. This  seminar will explore the thinking behind these initiatives and  policies, the benefits to people and the environment and what needs to  be done to facilitate more food growing and production in or near urban  areas.

Speakers:

Fiona McAllister (Capital Growth) and Rob Logan (Fringe Farming) from Sustain(https://www.capitalgrowth.org/)

(www.sustainweb.org/foodandfarmingpolicy/fringe-farming-peri-urban-food-growing/)

Arlene  McKenzie: Project Manager with Rootz into Growing, whose aim is to  engage greater diversity in the food growing landscape. The project is  managed by Ubele Initiative with support from Organic Lea, Land in our  Names, and Black Rootz. (https://www.ubele.org/rootz-into-food-growing).

Glasgow Community Food Growing Network (https://glasgowfood.net/)

Manchester Urban Diggers (https://www.wearemud.org/about-us)

Organic Lea (https://www.organiclea.org.uk/)