Sankofa Community Development Cooperation aims to build, inspire, and serve the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, LA. They do so through a variety of projects, including a community garden that is designated as a USDA People’s Garden. Community members can work in the garden and can get fresh, nutritious food through harvesting produce themselves or by picking it up at Sankofa’s Food Bank. Learn more about USDA’s People’s Gardens here: Audrey Nunez, a member of the Lower Ninth Ward community, harvests produce and flowers. 4/25/2023 by USDA/Kirsten Strough
Urban agriculture refers to various practices of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in urban term also applies to the area activities of animal husbandry, aquaculture, beekeeping, and horticulture in an urban context. Urban agriculture is distinguished from peri-urban agriculture, which takes place in rural areas at the edge of suburbs. Urban agriculture can appear at varying levels of economic and social development. It can involve a movement of organic growers, "foodies" and "locavores", who seek to form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community networks can develop by way of formal institutional support, becoming integrated into local town planning as a "transition town" movement for sustainable urban development. For others, food security, nutrition, and income generation are key motivations for the practice. In either case, the more direct access to fresh vegetable, fruit, and meat products that may be realised through urban agriculture can improve food security and food safety while decreasing food miles, leading to lower greenhouse gas emissions, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation.
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