Urban Farming - Indianapolis

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Topic: Urban Agriculture

Viewpoints:

• Growing Food Brings Health, Happiness, and a Connection to History (2019)

• How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities (2019)

• On rooftops and in tunnels, city farms lead food revolution (2019)

• Some Ex-Cons Make a Living Out in the Yard (2018)

Academic Journals:

• Small-scale urban agriculture: Drivers of growing produce at home and in community gardens in Detroit. (2022)

• Invited Perspective: Assessing the Contaminant Exposure Risks of Urban Gardening: Call for Updated Health Guidelines. (2021)

• Towards sustainable urban food systems: Analyzing contextual and intrapsychic drivers of growing food in small-scale urban agriculture. (2020)

Topic: Food Desert

Viewpoints:

• "Strange Paradox:" Rural Towns Surrounded by Farmland Are Losing Food Access

• Racism Is a Public Health Crisis

Academic Journals:

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Points of View Reference Source

• City plots: Urban gardening grows with tips to add accessible greens

• From a vacant lot to a community hub

• 'It's our heritage': How Sacramento residents fight food insecurity through urban farming

• A New Meaning of From Farm to Table: For the non-profit Dreaming Out Loud, urban farming is more than a dream

• OPINION: Does farming have a place in the new Detroit?

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