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.
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