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Subject: [SANET-MG] On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture 
Movement:
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:41:27 -0500
From: Joel Gruver <jgruv@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Hello folks,

this open access article may be of interest:

http://www.agdevjournal.com/attachments/140_JAFSCD_Jac_Smit_Tribute_Dec-2010.pdf

On the Past and the Future of the Urban Agriculture Movement: 
Reflections in Tribute to Jac Smit
by Anne C. Bellows, Joe Nasr (editors);   Diana Lee-Smith,  Luc J. A. 
Mougeot, Michael Levenston, Peter Mann,   Katherine Brown,   Jerry 
Kaufman (contributors)
doi: 10.5304/jafscd.2010.012.009

The relation­ship between food and cities is newly maturing after
decades in the shadows, with urban agricul­ture acting as a pivotal
lynch­pin in the development. To compre­hend this reemer­gence, one must
 understand the role that Jac Smit, who passed away in 2009, played in
it. His curiosity and vision pursued the ramifications of urban
agriculture on planning for social, financial, and environmental systems
 and infrastructures, in and near cities, including job creation, food
production and nutrition enhance­ment, gray- and wastewater recycling,
urban com­posting, air cooling and cleaning, and the presence of a
framework of green zones. He found the applications relevant, as he
said, from Zimbabwe to Santa Barbara, ground level to raised beds, and
from greenhouses and hydroponic systems to rooftops and skyscrapers. In
this tribute, a half-dozen contributions from long-time colleagues of
Jac introduce his work worldwide while reflecting on their own
involvement in and around urban agriculture. Their stories serve as a
collective oral history written by key actors in the movement itself,
filtered through the lens of their interaction with Jac over the past
few decades.
Joel

Joel Gruver

School of Agriculture

Western Illinois University

jgruv@hotmail.com