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************************************************Also thinking of those better off cities and communities
still constantly battling with inflation and fluctuating food prices and
uncertain supply of fresh produce, possibly sometimes relying too much on
import of fresh vegetables and fruits, from other countries or region or
distant farmlands. It may sometimes be a self imposed limitation. Now imagine a
new greenfield city being planned, that by development control regulation, i.e.
by law, mandates to have landscape plant, shrub, creeper and tree in this new
city or community, belonging to only native edible type (and of course wild
meadows and bees etc for pollination) i.e. only to have edible landscape
(fruit, vegetable, nuts, orchard, herbs, and even many a times stems, leaves,
roots, flowers of edible kind); also true for brownfield cities that as an
experiments, may permits only planting edible landscape, past a cut off date,
for next few years. Will this move make these new or old cities or districts
self reliant in terms of food or resilient to some extent; will this be a
replicable/ scalable food security measure; possibly yes. After all, having
only decorative, aesthetic trees, plants and shrubs in city was self imposed
constraint only, while many such cities still continue to battle with either
food scarcity or food unaffordability. After all keeping traditional custodians
of agricultural fields away and outside of city boundaries must also be a self
imposed constraint; instead can some or many of them be invited to help manage
this very proposed citywide (only permissible) edible landscape within urban
green and unused open spaces. This is one more way of looking at urban food
security.
Author: Anoop Jha
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