What Happens if we Don't Adopt Urban Agriculture

Most discussions about urban agriculture are filled with optimism. And they should be. Urban agriculture gives us a path to a better, more sustainable future. It solves many of the problems we face today. But amongst all this optimism, we also need to ask an uncomfortable question: what happens if we don't adopt urban agriculture?

If we don't adopt urban agriculture, our food will no longer be able to satisfy our basic nutritional needs. With high yield farming causing steady drops in the quality of our food, new food systems are required to protect the nutritional value of our food.

If we don't adopt urban agriculture, food will become to expensive for some people to afford. Our current food systems are causing the price of food to rise steadily. Soon, high food prices will put a basic human need out of reach for many.

If we don't adopt urban agriculture, we will run out of places to grow food. High yield farming is creating a crisis of soil depletion as our soil is losing its fertility. Once our soil becomes infertile, we will be unable to grow anymore food.

If we don't adopt urban agriculture, more than half the world will go hungry. Our current food systems are only able to feed four billion people. With a global population of six billion, one in three people are currently starving. As the global population grows to a projected ten billion, six out of ten people will go hungry if our food systems remain the same.

If we don't adopt urban agriculture, our food systems will crumble under the weight of the human race.

3 Ways to Put Urban Agriculture to Work for You

It's easy to recognize that urban agriculture is a far superior alternative to our current food systems. It's also easy to pinpoint ways in which adopting urban agriculture yourself will make improvements to your own life. But sometimes, it isn't easy to know where to start. In this post, we'll give you a few easy ways to incorporate urban agriculture into your lifestyle.

1. Start growing your own food. This is the simplest and most straightforward way to start improving your life through urban agriculture. Innovative new urban agriculture products from companies like CitiGrow now allow anyone to grow their own food regardless of space or time constraints.

2. Join or create a community garden. By collaborating with others to grow urban agriculture crops, you can multiply the effectiveness of your efforts. Community gardens are becoming more and more popular, so search around for one to join in your area. And if your area is lacking a community garden, why not be the one to start it?

3. Purchase your food from urban gardeners. With more and more people becoming practitioners of urban agriculture, locally grown food is becoming increasingly available. Check out some local markets and other places to see if anyone is selling the produce of their urban gardens in your area. Although this is more expensive and often less rewarding than growing your food yourself, it can still be an excellent alternative for some people.