A vibrant movement is afoot in cities across the country − farmers, activists, and community organizations are improving the health, economic outlook, and vitality of their communities through urban farming. Advocates are illustrating that urban agriculture is a pathway to making healthy food more available for low-income communities, a key to shifting economic revitalization efforts, and catalytic for battling the challenges of blight and abandonment.
Building from the recently released PolicyLink Urban Agriculture Tool, PolicyLink will be hosting a mini-series of webinars focusing on how low-income communities and communities of color are incorporating urban agriculture into their community development efforts and into policy infrastructures supporting this work.
Each panelist will discuss policy challenges and strategies for scaling up and sustaining urban agriculture projects in low-income communities and communities of color.
This first webinar features the following speakers:
- Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink (opening remarks)
- Mary Donnell, CEO, Green City Grower’s
- Ian Marvy, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Added Value (see video here)
- Malik Yakini, Chairman, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
To register for the webinar click here.