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    Wageningen presents Kick-off Event Urban Greenhouse Challenge #3

    By urbanagnewsOctober 26, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Exploring the potential of urban farming

    As metropoles all over the world are encouraging urban food production, agriculture is making its way back to the cities. Urban farming in its modern forms looks cool (check #rooftopgarden), helps to green and cool down urban heat islands and produces food that has positive associations: local, fresh, sustainable.

    Urban Greenhouse Challenge has been set up to explore the potential of urban farming in all its forms.The third edition of this international student competition focuses on urban farming as a catalyst for social impact.

    How can it create benefits for local residents? What is needed to design a socially inclusive concept? Can urban farms play a role in bringing back social justice?

    In the opening event of the Urban Greenhouse Challenge#3, Dr Sabine O’Hara (University of the District of Columbia), Tiffany Tsui (Vertical Farm Institute) and Dr Sigrid Wertheim-Heck (Wageningen University & Research) will discuss those and other questions related to impact of the urban farming beyond food production. The event will be presented by Simone Ritzer, Programme Facilitator Wageningen Dialogues

    Programme

    Welcome word: Prof Arthur Mol, Rector Magnificus Wageningen University

    Key-note: Urban Food Hubs Initiative: igniting community empowerment

    Dr. Sabine O’Hara about the transformative power of local food systems and the role that urban agriculture can play in mitigating systemic racism

    Round table discussion with Tiffany Tsui and Dr Sigrid Wertheim-Heck

    Topic 1: Beyond nutrition: food as part of one’s culture and identity

    Topic 2: Urban agriculture as means of greening the cities/ creating public spaces

    Topic 3: The role of urban farms in transforming local economies

    Launch of the third edition of the Urban Greenhouse Challenge

    Register for the event

    Join us in the studio!

    The opening event of the Urban Greenhouse Challenge#3 will be recorded in the studio in Impulse (Wageninge Campus). Would you like to join event live instead of watching it on-line? Please register via Google form, the number of places is limited!

    Note: we ask you to arrive to Impulse at 14:45 the latest so that we can start the live-stream at 15.00 sharply. We ask you to remain in the studio until the end of the even (around 16.30).

    Register to watch in Impulse

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