Sustainable Economies Law Center Provides Legal Support for Urban Agriculture Movement

This video is rather unpolished from a graphic standpoint, but once you start listening to the dialogue you realize how informative and sophisticated it really is. Created by the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), the video provides a high level explanation of urban agriculture, and covers a variety of ways that city residents and city officials can support growing food in urbanized areas. (Mainly by revising policies that currently restrict or discourage food production.)

SELC is an organization that facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized economies, through providing legal research, professional training, resource development and education on such topics as cooperatives, affordable housing, microlending, urban agriculture and much more. Right now, SELC’s Urban Agriculture Program is developing an online urban agriculture legal resource library and creating presentations that explore the legal issues surrounding urban agriculture including: land acquisition, zoning, land covenants, health codes, building codes, nuisance laws, land conservation tools and more.

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1. Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture
2. Free On-Line Courses on Urban Agriculture
3. Exploration into the Role of Design in the Urban Food Movement – UW Panel Presentation and Charette

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