Nathan McClintock talks urban agriculture
Feb 19th, 2010 | By sha.evans | Category: One QuestionNathan McClintock is a Ph.D candidate in geography at UC Berkeley. He currently holds a seat on the Oakland Food Policy Council. He has worked on agricultural development projects with the Rodale Institute in Senegal and Partners in Health in Haiti, as well as done short-term consultancies in Bangladesh, Nepal, Mali, and Mexico. Nathan stopped by Thursday morning’s class to talk about urban agriculture in Mali and Senegal, and the development of urban gardening in Oakland. For our one question series we asked what he thought Oakland could learn from Africa in regards to sustaining urban gardening and developing urban agriculture throughout the city.
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I think that there could and should be a lot more urban agriculture, especially in western societies. This could reduce the food miles of some products and help make some communities a little bit self sufficient.
Do you know of any other websites of people who are on the Oakland Food Policy Council? Id like more information with specifics pertaining to agricultural development. thanks
This urban gardening concept is not only fascinating,
but I believe one day, it will be a necesity and everybody
will be doing it.
If possible, if you could tell us of resources on urban gardening, so
we can learn how to have gardens here also…
The way I look at, some countries are more involved with their lands and their agriculture than we do in U.S. It seems a good amount of people take agriculture and sell it, and some countries take agriculture and live it to the fullest.
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I absolutely LOVE the idea urban gardening. There are some people here in Detroit that are starting to do this in the areas of the city that are vacant. It just seems like such a great use of the space. I hope this type of thing catches on in other urban areas.
Good for you Mr. McClintock, keep up the good work
As food prices go up and up, things like urban gardening and square foot gardening will be of increased interest to people. This post vaguely reminds me of a relatively new (I think it started in 2000) organization called Engineers Without Borders, that would somewhat fit into what Nathan is doing.
It was neat to hear that the African content is somewhat ahead of the US when it comes to urban agriculture.
“Urban agriculture” really sounds like a brilliant idea, considering one can hardly find a spot in city to grow something. This way people could benefit a little amount of fresh air in the city.
Yes we all could certainly learn from the African urban agriculture, we’re well behind in comparison to these guys.
Their model is one that we can take some elements from for sure and integrate these principals into our own urban gardens within our cities.
Keep it up Dr. McClintock!
“He has worked on agricultural development projects with the Rodale Institute in Senegal and Partners in Health in Haiti, as well as done short-term consultancies in Bangladesh, Nepal, Mali, and Mexico”
With his experience in urban agriculture, I think it is very interesting to hear his insights about the differences of urban agriculture in the countries that he visited in the past and what we can learn from them so that we can apply it to our own country.
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It’s nice to know that there’s someone who are engaging themselves for the procurement and for the betterment of the community like Nathan. Kudos to goals!
Is he into organic urban gardening as well? Everything is about organic gardening these days.
I would love to hear him talk about his craft. It is really amazing to find out that there are people like Nathan.
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