bring food back into the city — ideas for land-use planning to improve food quality
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Bringing Food into The CityLAND USE PLANNING
Prepared by Yogita Mehra and Karan Manral
GREAT IDEA!?||---||
WHY BOTHER…
Before we proceed,a gentle reminder…its supposed to be…
FOODSHELTER
CLOTHING
…in that order
Just in case you were missing the BIG picture
What food security means…
Approx. 4,000 acres
But there’s no space in the cities!!
Think about it – there’s a block of about 4,000 acres of public
land INSIDE MUMBAI!
If its so neat, why isn’t any global city doing it?
But that’s valuable land which can’t be wasted
Eg. Gauteng, South Africa
Hey! Let’s build these – aren’t they supercool?!
Ummm…what do you suppose THIS would cost?
Hey! But let’s do that Aquaponics stuff?
This isn’t very cheap either…for the bottom 90%
It’ll never work because of Real Estate dynamics
Hmmm…Maybe we should just build over Central Park, NY
What would you say the prices here are
like?
It’s just an elite – rich folks thing…not sustainable
Ummm…this is in Cuba, since the early 1990s
SO…now that we have that out of the way,
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Should we move on to address the issue of how?
#1 The LAND is there, FIRST lock it in for food
We could call it DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
100 acres @ 15 Tons/Acre/Year = 1,500,000 kgs of food produced= Rs. 450,00,000/year= Rs. 4500,00,000++/year in 10 years
#2 Don’t just think ‘OPEN space’, think ‘growing space’
100 acres @ X kgs/Acre/Year = X amount of pollution “absorbed”= X * Rs. Y/year= Rs. XY/year in 10 years
It keeps ADDING UP
A 100-km radius is an important marker for food
#3 Peri-urban areas are critical food basket
Peri-urban
100 km
30 km
100 acres @ X kms/Acre/Year = X amount of fuel “saved”= X * Rs. Y/year= Rs. XY/year in 10 years
It keeps ADDING UP
This is the new NYC model
#4 Now look for land closely inside the city too…
Another 100 acres @ X kgs/Acre/Year = X amount of food “produced”= X * Rs. Y/year= Rs. XY/year in 10 years
It keeps ADDING UP
Rural folk can utilise their skills and provide their kids opportunities in the city
#5 Perhaps this is Perspiration + Aspiration
100 acres @ X jobs/Acre/Year = X amount of employment created= X * Rs. Y/year= Rs. XY/year in 10 years
It keeps ADDING UP
BTW, these are orange trees in Athens’ STREETS
#6 Insert trees – replace equivalent ‘landscape’ plants
Can we make FRUITS affordable again?For even the MIDDLE class?
#7 Change more of the rules – FSI/FAR
Create NEW incentives for food growing
Can we redefine space efficiency without abuse of rules?
#8 Make it compulsory in new/redeveloped layouts
Imagine this in Phoenix mills or upcoming Dockyard areas of Mumbai
100 acres @ X kg/Acre/Year = X amount of food subsidies “saved”= X * Rs. Y/year= Rs. XY/year in 10 years
It keeps ADDING UP
#9 REDEFINE “Efficient” and “Convenient”
“EFFICIENCY” AND “CONVENIENCE” HAVE BECOME THE BIGGEST IMPEDIMENTS TO SUSTAINABILITY
The Farmers
The Traders
Us
The Retailers
The Supermarkets
Restaurants
Join hands with
Kitchen Gardeners
CHANGING THE URBAN FOOD MODEL: By creating an Alternative Food Network (AFN)
Form Food Consumer
Groups
Better Taste!
Better Health!
#10 The Design? To create a new URBAN Food Network
FOOD SECURITY = AFFORDABILITY + AVAILABILITY + QUALITY + SAFETY
FARMER’SMARKETS
PERI-URBANDSA
URBANGROWING
FARM COOPERATIVES
There’s much more…BUT WE’RE OUT OF TIME
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Karan Manral – [email protected] Mehra – [email protected]