The City and the Peasant—Family Farms Around Bengaluru

Seema Purushothaman () and Sheetal Patil ()
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Seema Purushothaman: Azim Premji University
Sheetal Patil: Azim Premji University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Agrarian Change and Urbanization in Southern India, 2019, pp 119-152 from Springer

Abstract: 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?

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8336-5_6

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