A city of gardeners - med Urban Agenda Food

A city of gardeners: the integration of (urban)-agriculture in the planning of the new peri-urban area of Oosterwold, the Netherlands

The presentation will focus on Oosterwold, a new peri-urban area of the Dutch city of Almere that pivots urban agriculture. The area (4,300 ha and 15,000 houses in the future) is a unique experiment in which a top-down policy goal – producing 10% of the city’s future food needs – is handed over to the self-organisation of the area’s new residents, who are bound by the rule to allocate 51% of their plot to produce food.

The presentation will be delivered by Jan Eelco Jansma, Senior Scientist in Urban Food Systems at Wageningen University & Research, and a member of the Steering Group of AESOP-SFP.

The Spanish Network of Municipalities for Agroecology: cooperation and trans-local governance to address food policies and boost agroecological urbanism

The Network is a dynamic platform between local entities to share experiences and jointly develop innovative solutions to the problems they face to build local, environmentally friendly, sustainable, inclusive and resilient food systems. 

The speakers will be Jorge Molero Cortés, Secretary of the Spanish Network of Municipalities for Agroecology (RMxAe), and Marian Simón Rojo, member of AESOP-SFP, chair of the WG Agroecological Urbanism at the RmxAe.

After the keynote speeches, participants will have the opportunity to interact with the speakers and ask questions during the Q&A session.