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Urban Agriculture: Using Community Systems of Agriculture as a Solution to Homelessness and Unhealthy Food Sources

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: For those persons living on the edge of the socioeconomic periphery lack of employment, nutritional food sources and housing resources has led to an increase of homelessness over the past decade. This paper focuses on these resources can be accessed through through the use of urban agriculture as a community system, similar to systems of community supported agriculture (CSA's), that will provide homeless citizens with access to food, housing, vocational opportunities and social resources.

Source: University of Washington Tacoma Digital Commons (University of Washington Tacoma)

Author: Ian Michael Mearns

Language: English

Topic: Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Sustainable cities and communities, Reduced inequalities, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W82441442

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