Urban Agroecology:

Agroecology is the approach to agricultural ecosystems interested in mimicking natural processes as much as possible in the land stewardship relationships involved in growing food (as well as fiber and other products of agriculture). As a field, agroecology is understood to have three related parts: practices involved in stewardship, the sciences involved in understanding these systems and relationships, and the movement to support community engagements with agroecologies and food sovereignty. Urban agroecologies are wonderful places to rebuild metabolic and learning relationships between the communities dependent on ecosystems for food and life and ecological processes. Ecologies are often degraded in both cities and intensive farming regions as a result of extractive rural-urban relationships that concentrate consumption in cities and production in rural places.