From Abidjan to Djakarta, is the city the enemy of good food?
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An urban vegetable garden in Antananarivo.
RFI / Laetitia Bezain
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 min
Some would say that when you live in the city, you eat poorly.
And for good reason, it is often difficult to access good quality products at affordable prices.
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The confinement and the slowdown in economic exchanges have called this postulate into question: city dwellers have tended to turn to local products or short circuits.
But what can the city offer when it comes to food?
Does it condemn its inhabitants to “junk food”?
In partnership with The Conversation website.
With:
- Jennifer Gallé
, journalist for the Information site
The Conversation
-
Christine Aubry,
head of the research collective "Urban agriculture" at
INRAE
, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment of
AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay
- Audrey Soula
, researcher in anthropology at
CIRAD
- Estelle Kouokam, anthropologist at the
Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé.
Some articles from
The Conversation
to go further:
Roofs vegetable gardens in the city
No, everything that grows in the city is not polluted
The rise of urban agriculture
Information on the Manger en Ville conference organized by CIRAD
Download the book "Manger en ville".
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