The city and the peasant—family farms around Bengaluru

Purushothaman, Seema and Patil, Sheetal (2019) The city and the peasant—family farms around Bengaluru. In: Agrarian change and urbanization in Southern India: City and the peasant. Springer, Singapore, pp. 119-152. ISBN 978-981-10-8335-8

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Abstract

In any fast-growing economy, it is common to attribute agrarian opportunities to expanding and emerging cities as described in Satterthwaite et al. (2010). Nevertheless, the opportunities arising from urbanisation come along with huge demands placed on the production landscape. If the current pattern of urban consumption continues, food production should double by 2050. Despite niche innovations in urban farming (such as vertical farms, hydroponics, aeroponics, and polymer farming), the fast depleting rural agricultural landscapes will have to meet most of this overwhelming demand. Do our urbanised societies and economies realise the extent of their dependence on agrarian landscapes for safe and healthy food? Can this dependence help sustain their farmer producers?

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Purushothaman, Seema and Patil, Sheetal
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development > Urban development Social sciences > Economics > Production > Sustainable development Technology > Agriculture
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	None
Related URLs:	Library OPAC
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7511
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8336-5_6

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