Karen Lock & René van Veenhuizen

In: UA Magazine 3 - Health aspects of urban agriculture

Urban agriculture can have both negative and positive effects on the health and environmental conditions of the urban population. Previous reviews or studies of health issues have tended to highlight the health risks of urban and periurban agriculture (e.g. Birley and Lock 1999). This has served to reinforce the perceptions of many governments and municipal authorities that urban agriculture is a (marginal) activity that has substantial health risks and should not be supported.