Alain Santandreu, Alberto Gómez Perazzoli, Raúl Terrile, Mariana Ponce

In: Urban Agriculture Magazine no 22 - Building Resilient Cities pp. 12-13

Urban agriculture has developed into a permanent activity in Rosario, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay (as demonstrated in earlier articles in the UA-Magazine). Urban agriculture is important in feeding cities in times of crisis, but it is currently being promoted by civil society and local government as a way to enhance social inclusion and employment of (especially poor) urban farmers, and thus to transform a challenging situation into new opportunities.