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In Havana, 90% of the city's fresh produce come from local urban farms and gardens.

WAITING LISTS FOR ALLOTMENTS HAVE RISEN IN RECENT YEARS, AND NOW STAND AT NEARLY 78,000 PEOPLE ACROSS ENGLAND A TOTAL OF 52 PEOPLE WAITING FOR EVERY 100 PLOTS PROVIDED BY LOCAL

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London loses 2.5 Hyde Parks of greenery a year from its private, domestic  gardens – about 3,000 ha 

(7,410 acres)

More than 7,000 hectares of forest was felled, 14,000 hectares of farmland concreted and 1,000 hectars of precious wetland was drained to make way for urban sprawl. That’s a landscape twice the size of Liverpool,

transformed forever, in just six years

IN 2014-15 TRUSSELL TRUST FOOD BANKS DISTRIBUTED ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED 1,084,604 PEOPLE (INCLUDING

397,997 CHILDREN)

WILL ALLEN’S 3ACRE FARM SITS IN THE POOREST PART OF MILWAUKEE AND NOW FEEDS 10,000 PEOPLE A YEAR.

APPROXIMATELY 10% OF CENTRAL LONDON IS COVERED BY FLAT ROOFS, WHICH ARE THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD TO GREEN AND HAVE OFTEN

BEEN DESIGNED TO TAKE SIGNIFICANT ADDITIONAL WEIGHT

You could create 233 of Will Allen's farms on the readily available flat roof space in London which would feed up to 2.3m people. You could realistically feed all the people that visited foodbanks in the UK last year, twice over and create green economy jobs too.

 

Growing food in cities is possible, happening and

necessary so let's do more of it.