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Urban Gardening Practices In Bangalore: Towards A More Localized Food System?, Delfina Grinspan
Urban Gardening Practices In Bangalore: Towards A More Localized Food System?, Delfina Grinspan
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Localized Food Systems (LFS) have garnered much attention in recent years among civil society, research, and policy circles, among others. Increased attention and efforts to build more localized food systems are principally motivated by the awareness of the pressures exerted by increasing urbanization on food security and access, and concern for the ecological and social costs of the dominant globalized food system. In their varying purpose to address these two issues, LFS tend to be characterized by certain patterns of (localized) land, water, and other resource use; by direct marketing and distribution arrangements; and by the presence of extensive linkages …