“Urban Agriculture” Environment

Definition

Is the agricultural and livestock

practice of growing and cultivating

healthy and non-modified food in

densely populated areas for personal consumption by

the grower.

General ObjectiveContribution of the sustainable

development of urbans and suburbans zones.

Help to reduce human poverty, as they could produce their own food, create new jobs and generate income.

Specific Objectives

Improve the urban environment to maximize and preserve green space, recycling organic and inorganic wastes. Promoting the use of multifunctional land.And aesthetic of the urban landscape.

Promote participatory governance where municipal action becomes a decentralized urban management.

Make a social inclusion.

Benefit managing of our natural resources by promoting

greater awareness about the use of soil, water and air. Increase individual and community identity and responsibility for their

environment and management.

Justification

The necessity to satisfy the demand for healthy and non-modified food for a growing population, and the serious soil degradation, are problems in the national

and global levels.Also the state of poverty in Mexico could be

beneficiated.

Estrategies

We need to present the project to the government, municipal management and others organisms, to be accepted in the community.

We are goin to speak and promoting the project in high, medium and marginal communitys. With the objective to create a group of interested people and capacity them.

The training consist in organize the community, to learn how to develop techniques and management elements to create an effective farming.

Then we need to follow up, to ensure that the people are bieng trained and help them on anything they need.

We need to create an

environmental and economic awareness, to

make this project happen and last.

“I don’t want to protect the Environment…

I want to create a world where the environment

doesn’t need protecting”