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
2 min
Some would say that when you live in the city, you eat badly.
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 website
The Conversation
.
With:
- Jennifer Gallé
, journalist for the Information website
The Conversation
-
Christine Aubry,
head of the "Urban agriculture" research collective at
INRAE
, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the 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 in town
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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