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Farming on the Fringe, 1st ed. 2016
Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney
Urban Agriculture Series
Author: James Sarah
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This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney?s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney?s globalizing demographic and cultural fabric, but also play a critical role in the city?s environmental sustainability. In the battle for urban space housing development threatens to turn these farmlands into sprawling suburbia. In thinking from and with the urban ?fringe?, this book moves beyond the housing versus farming debate to present a vision for urban growth that is dynamic and alive to the needs of the 21st century city. In a unique bringing together of the twin forces shaping contemporary urbanism - environmental change and global population flows - the voices from the fringe demand to be heard in the debate on future urban food sustainability.
Uniquely interrogates the diversity-blindness of prevailing food sustainability discourses
Original and compelling insights into local food systems and urban food planning
Gives voice to the 'invisible'small-scale family farmer