“Urban Agriculture” Environment

Definition Is the agricultural and livestock practice of growing and cultivating healthy and non- modified food in densely populated areas for personal consumption by the grower.

General Objective Contribution of the sustainable development of urbans and suburbans zones.

 Help to reduce human poverty, as they could produce their own food, create new jobs and generate income. Specific Objectives  Improve the urban environment to maximize and preserve green space, recycling organic and inorganic wastes. Promoting the use of multifunctional land. And aesthetic of the urban landscape.

 Promote participatory governance where municipal action becomes a decentralized urban management. Make a social inclusion. Benefit managing of our natural resources by promoting greater awareness about the use of soil, water and air. Increase individual and community identity and responsibility for their environment and management.

Justification The necessity to satisfy the demand for healthy and non- modified food for a growing population, and the serious soil degradation, are problems in the national and global levels. Also the state of poverty in Mexico could be beneficiated.

Estrategies We need to present the project to the government, municipal management and others organisms, to be accepted in the community. We are goin to speak and promoting the project in high, medium and marginal communitys. With the objective to create a group of interested people and capacity them.

The training consist in organize the community, to learn how to develop techniques and management elements to create an effective farming. Then we need to follow up, to ensure that the people are bieng trained and help them on anything they need.

We need to create an environmental and economic awareness, to make this project happen and last.

“I don’t want to protect the Environment… I want to create a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting”