...on the last Tuesday of every month!
November 26th
8 till Late
URBAN FARMING PECHA KUCHA! Evening
LOADS OF IDEAS!
IN DA HOUSE!
(from L to R, top to bottom)
Gurmit Singh - The CETDEM Organic Farming Project
Nisha Firdaus - EcoCentric Transitions
Baida Hercus - FreeTreeSociety
Low Shao-Lyn - Eats Roots & Shoots
Huey Yoong - Home Container Gardening
Fun Mun Wah - Herbalist
Subur Community Garden
The Little Green Planet
Farm for the Future - BBC Documentary
URBAN FARMING
More than half the world's population now lives in cities, but when it comes to feeding them, trucking in the necessary amount of food isn't a sustainable process for any metropolis.
Growing out of the need for better solutions, urban farming is becoming an increasingly common approach - where it often takes the form of a social movement for sustainable communities, with organic growers, ‘foodies’ and ‘locavores’ forming social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community.
It largely exists as an informal activity that is too often discouraged by city planners and health officials who view the practice as a rural activity, misplaced in urban areas... but this is changing!
ABOUT PECHA KUCHA
PechaKucha is a simple presentation format where you show 20 slides, each for 20 seconds.
The floor is open to anyone who would like to share their ideas and thoughts on anything related to urban farming.
Hot on the heals of last month's first look at Sustainable Food, at Green Drinks this month we have a Pecha Kucha evening on Urban Farming.
The Urban Farming movement has exploded round the world over the last couple of decades with well-established individual and community edible gardening projects in virtually all the major cities in the world... supported by farmer's markets and the organic, locovere and other types of sustainable restaurant movements. This is, no doubt, the inevitable reaction to industrial agriculture and the centralisation of our food systems; urban migration and the population explosion; soil fertility depletion, climate change and other ecological deficits.
In Malaysia, the government began supporting urban food production (apparently) as a response to the 1990s economic downturn... and recently, University Putra Malaysia (formerly known as The Agricultural University of Malaysia ) declared itself spearheading urban agriculture in the country (http://mystar.my/myads/pdf_assets/2013/03/31/10988579001.pdf). Scepticism about the competency of our central government aside (need I mention the national feellot scandal?!), the worldwide urban farming movement has been characterised primarily by informal, community-driven, bottom-up initiaitves.
So this month, we'll have a number of speakers who are doing just that in KL!
If you know anyone running an interesting project of this kind, please encourage them to join in at the Pecha Kucha evening this month. Post info on the Facebook event page or email me (stevemccoy1@me.com)
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