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

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book “

Manger en ville

.

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