Alternative Food Systems: Urban Agriculture in an Era of Global Warming and Oil Price Shocks

Dear All,

In the last couple of days the issues related to the implementation of
alternative food systems have been largely featured in the UK media.
Interest in the topic has largely been provoked by the Capital Growth
initiative of the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, whereby 2,012 new
food growing spaces should be established in London by 2012.

The mobile market design problem for developing countries is
inextricably entwined with the problem of improving the food supply
chain in developing countries and the problem of creating food supply
systems, alternative to the currently dominant industrial food supply
chain, in developed countries. Traditionally, aggressive agricultural
techniques and drives towards agricultural exports have been regarded
as a prime road to development and poverty reduction in many LDCs. In
the current global environmental situation, the solutions to both of
these problems demand re-thinking.

Please, visit mmd4d.org where I have posted on the topic "Alternative
Food Systems: Urban Agriculture in an Era of Global Warming and Oil
Price Shocks" and share your opinions on the matter! How do you see
the future of the food supply chain in developed and developing
countries?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best,

Dr Mira Slavova

ICT4D Consultant
Mobile Market Design 4 Development
mmd4d.org
++44 (0)7734 408829
skype: slavbreed

Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 01:20:37 UTC