Addressing Food Security in Constrained Urban Environments

Food security for the urban poor has been an important topic for both developed and developing countries over the last 15 years. Although South Bend Indiana is a city in a developed country, declining economic circumstances have caused the city to show significant urban decay somewhat similar to some cities in developing countries. In this chapter, we explore South Bend's history and economic development strategies, and review practices aimed at strengthening food security for the urban poor. The chapter documents how numerous disparate organizations have been trying to help alleviate urban poverty and hunger, and reviews previous strategies used to foster sustainable growth and development. The integration of spatial technologies will become a key factor for promoting community social networks, participatory planning, and collaboration. The case is presented for the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and associated technologies to help organizations, community leaders, local organizations, city planners, higher education institutions and the urban poor, work together to alleviate poverty and malnutrition through networking and sustainable urban agriculture.

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Integrating Spatial Technologies in Urban Environments for Food Security

Agricultural Development and Food Security in Developing Nations - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0942-4.ch012 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 263-299

Author(s):

Edwin Joseph ◽

Elizabeth O'Dea

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Food Security ◽

Urban Poor ◽

Urban Poverty ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

Developed Country ◽

Urban Decay ◽

Key Factor ◽

The City

Food security for the urban poor has been an important topic for both developed and developing countries over the last 15 years. Although South Bend Indiana is a city in a developed country, declining economic circumstances have caused the city to show significant urban decay somewhat similar to some cities in developing countries. In this chapter, we explore South Bend's history and economic development strategies, and review practices aimed at strengthening food security for the urban poor. The chapter documents how numerous disparate organizations have been trying to help alleviate urban poverty and hunger, and reviews previous strategies used to foster sustainable growth and development. The integration of spatial technologies will become a key factor for promoting community social networks, participatory planning, and collaboration. The case is presented for the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and associated technologies to help organizations, community leaders, local organizations, city planners, higher education institutions and the urban poor, work together to alleviate poverty and malnutrition through networking and sustainable urban agriculture.

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Feeding Our Affinities: Looking for Alternatives to Food Security in a World of Unsustainable Global Agribusiness

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.7980 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Zavitz

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Urban Agriculture ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Intentional Communities ◽

Theoretical Base ◽

Community Gardening ◽

Academic Literature ◽

The Social ◽

Social Logic ◽

Undergraduate Thesis

This focus of this undergraduate thesis is how alternatives to industrialized agriculture are necessary given that current global agribusiness is unsustainable and susceptible to collapse. My presentation will explore the social logic of alternative forms of food security and how the emerging interrelationships affect the development of these alternatives. The presentation begins with a brief description of how global agribusiness functions and why it is unsustainable. In an effort of making my research as relevant to this issue as possible, I construct a theoretical base which underscores the commonalities between food security and relevant social and political theory. The rest of my presentation focuses on three alternative forms of food security: smallscale markets, urban agriculture and intentional communities. This continuum is a way of arranging the aforementioned alternatives into a way in which the relationships between the alternatives can be comprehensively studied in an accessible manner. Throughout this part of the presentation, I identify some of the practices and events in both the Kingston area and academic literature which highlight the currency of my theoretical base and arguments. Smallscale markets are introduced as a progressive involution from global agribusiness towards more sustainable forms of food security. Urban agriculture is embodied in the ways individuals and groups attempt to grow their food within seemingly uninviting urban environments, occurring through three interrelated practices: household gardening, community gardening and guerrilla gardening. The last of the explored alternatives, intentional communities, are developed as selfsustaining means of independence from outside forces.

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Integrating Spatial Technologies in Urban Environments for Food Security

Urban Agriculture and Food Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8063-8.ch012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 233-272

Author(s):

Edwin Joseph ◽

Elizabeth O'Dea

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Food Security ◽

Urban Poor ◽

Urban Poverty ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

Developed Country ◽

Urban Decay ◽

Key Factor ◽

The City

Food security for the urban poor has been an important topic for both developed and developing countries over the last 15 years. Although South Bend Indiana is a city in a developed country, declining economic circumstances have caused the city to show significant urban decay somewhat similar to some cities in developing countries. In this chapter, we explore South Bend's history and economic development strategies, and review practices aimed at strengthening food security for the urban poor. The chapter documents how numerous disparate organizations have been trying to help alleviate urban poverty and hunger, and reviews previous strategies used to foster sustainable growth and development. The integration of spatial technologies will become a key factor for promoting community social networks, participatory planning, and collaboration. The case is presented for the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and associated technologies to help organizations, community leaders, local organizations, city planners, higher education institutions and the urban poor, work together to alleviate poverty and malnutrition through networking and sustainable urban agriculture.

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Food Security Surveillance in the Palestinian Territories

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x00009389 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 17 (S2) ◽

pp. S20-S21

Author(s):

Gregg Greenough ◽

Ziad Abdeen ◽

Bdour Dandies ◽

Radwan Qasrawi

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Security Surveillance

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Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences ◽

10.1042/etls20190063 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

pp. 723-729

Author(s):

Roslyn Gleadow ◽

Jim Hanan ◽

Alan Dorin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Computer Simulation ◽

Food Security ◽

European Countries ◽

Plant Interactions ◽

Plant Insect Interactions ◽

Native Habitat ◽

Insect Pollinators ◽

Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

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