Given the currency of issues related to the Agricultural Land Reserve – (for instance today: “Farm group reverses support for ALR bill“- here’s a helpful lecture hosted by the SFU Urban Studies program:
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A public talk by Paul Burton, Professor of Urban Management and Planning, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia:
“Making Space for Urban Agriculture”
April 28, 7:00 pm
Room 1700, 515 West Hastings Street
RSVP at: www.sfu.ca/reserve
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Australia sees itself as a food secure country, able to help feed a growing global population. However, it continues to build national and local food systems that rely on increasingly complex distribution systems. Extreme weather events and other existential threats to food production and distribution are prompting greater attention to the re-localisation of these systems and planning regimes can help or hinder these process.
In this talk, Professor Burton critically reviews Australian practice and explores what might be learned from Canadian experience of local and metropolitan planning for greater food security.
