URBAN AGRICULTURE: IS IT A FAD OR THE FUTURE?^©

What’s the world’s biggest crisis?
If you said “energy” you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. Our civilization is built on a supply of cheap and plentiful oil that is no longer cheap or plentiful.
Or, you could have chosen “global warming.” Climate change may threaten the very ecosystem on which we rely, yet as political leaders fail to take significant action, our situation seems increasingly bleak.
But, ask the same question on a worldwide basis and a large number would answer differently. The more than 800 million people who are hungry and the 1.4 billion who are overweight and at risk of eating-related diseases, would more than likely have answered that our main problem is “food” (FAO, 2014; WHO, 2014). Even here in Canada, close to 850,000 people are assisted each month by food banks (FBC).