creating food centric urban opportunities—social equity for food security
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Ideas presented in the context of how food security can be addressed through urban planning and design to improve the quality of life in India's smarter citiesTRANSCRIPT
Creating Food Centric Urban Opportunities
SOCIAL EQUITY FOR FOOD SECURITY
Prepared by Yogita Mehra and Karan Manral
The Social Inequity of the Cities
Key Factors that affect Social Equity
Poverty in cities, is often worse than poverty in the villages. WHY?
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Because monetisable skills of poor in the city are low, and costs of
survival extremely high
Where do the skills and work experience of India’s poor lie?
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In the growing of food – which also addresses one of their own basic
needs
THE IDEA: Isn’t really Original
KEY PROBLEM: Spend is double in Urban areas PROPOSED
SOLUTION
Why LOCALISING food is efficient, inclusive AND sustainable
Access to plots for growing
Access to water for farming
Farmers collective
Convert market
waste for compost
Access to markets
and consumers
Value adding to
create products
Local, efficient and simple?
Managing the urban food opportunity
Micro credit for
inputs
How it could work…more specifically
Their USP? Fresh = Quality
What benefits can urban farming bring?
FOOD SECURITY
FOOD FRESHNESS(QUALITY)
URBAN POVERTY
ACCESS TO QUALITY
EDUCATION
INDIA’S URBANISATION
STRATEGY
CREATES TRANSITION
JOBS
REDUCE FOOD
SUBSIDIES
SKILLSUTILISATION
FUELSUBSIDYIMPACT
1. Work environment
vs
Safe and healthy Hazardous
2. Living and working conditions
vs
Self-employed/Tiny business Poor employment conditions
3. Unemployment issues…
vs
Basic needs are often accessible Compounds poverty and creates crime
4. Health issues for the poor…
vs
Able to address subsistance needs Malnutrition and food poisoning
So…what that means is..?|
Better food+Better work environment+
Better living and working conditions+Less unemployment+
Better health= GREATER SOCIAL EQUITY
(Plus the BONUS of creating a quality food economy and better food quality for urban residents)
A 100-km radius is an important marker for food
Peri-urban
100 km
30 km
Decentralise as is possible
The Farmers
The TradersUs
The Retailers
The Supermarkets
Restaurants
Join hands with
Kitchen Gardeners
Form Food Consumer
Groups
Better Taste!
Better Health!
FOOD SECURITY = AFFORDABILITY + AVAILABILITY + QUALITY + SAFETY
FARMER’SMARKETS
PERI-URBANDSA
URBANGROWING
FARM COOPERATIVES
MAX 100 KMS
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