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EcoDry Agroecology, Water & Resilience
EcoDry Research meeting Coventry Wednesday 26th Feb 2014Dr Ulrich Schmutz, Garden Organic & Coventry [email protected], [email protected]
Short Food Supply Chains
Short Food Supply Chains
Urbanisation
04/13/23 10
Crises and response• Crises in farming e.g. Foot and
Mouth, BSE• Over half of all adults are obese
or overweight – almost 24million adults
• But recently, improvements in food culture
• National and regional strategies for sustainable farming and food
• Recommendation from the South East strategy for sustainable farming and food for separate London food strategy.
• Establishment of Mayoral London Food Board in 2004
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Product innovationsNew spaces
The Urban Gardner'sfavourite tool
Food and Fuel
Land use choices - we could do this?
Or better this?
Example
Solar cars (roof area of cars in the UK available for solar panels)
UK number (million)
lenth m
width m
area m2
solar active
m2 ha
Mega Watt solar
cars 28,700,000 4.3 2 8.6 2 23% 5,740other 5,800,000 12 2.5 30 10 33% 5,800total 34,500,000 11,540 11,540
currently installed 1,000
Using dry and marginal landsperennial crops
Perennial crops for dry lands
Afghanistan (www.plantforpeace.org)
Perennial rootstocks for dry lands
Perennial rootstocks for dry lands
Perennial rootstocks for dry lands
http://www.slideshare.net/SridharGutam/evaluation-of-salinity-stress-tolerance-in-mango#
Perennial rootstocks for dry lands
Using dry and marginal landsgreenhouses
COST Near Neighbour Countries
Al-Balqaa Applied University/ Faculty of Agricultural Technology , Jordan
Cairo University, Egypt