Community Agriculture Development and Jobs Act: A Proposed Solution to

Community Agriculture Development and Jobs Act A Proposed Solution to forage Deserts There can be no sustainable world without sustainable cities. (Deelstra, 2000) This applies to many aspects of a city, but what is more(prenominal) important than the topic of fresh food for thought? Sustainable foods will be the foundation of the wellbeing of a community. We not only need these nutrients to fight our bodies each day, but it also supports the wellbeing of a society. So wherefore argon we ignorant to how many cities are lacking fresh food? The high concentration of food deserts in the United States has bypast unnoticed, especially in Detroit, Michigan. In the city of Detroit, researchers bear developed disturb and acknowledged the lack of fresh food available since 1997 (National question Council). Since then, they subscribe to found that highly concentrated poverty stricken areas are receiving brusk help from the government via food stamp programs and city food constitut ion and distribution. Our agricultural system parallels the mono-crops we grow. American farm policy and corporate mergers welcome created powerful agribusiness giants with dominant market sharescorporations that control virtually every of segment of the industrial food system. (food and farm bill, 2012). Similar to the dominant monocrops that are limiting the diversity of species and crops grown in the U.S., our conventional way of dry land has outcompeted all other food growing techniques even though it is unsustainable. Since we have realized that one systematic way of feeding the nation is not working, we must establish a variety of growing systems that accommodate the diverse and multifarious forms of societies and communities by geographic location. Detroit, Michigan is considered one of th... ...Health in Detroit. Marie Gallagher Research and Consulting Group,2007. Web. Accessed May 10, 2012. http//marigallagher.com/site_media/dynamic/project_files/1_DetroitFoodDesertRep ort_Full.pdf 10 May 2012.Gallagher, John. Acres of barren blocks advance chance to reinvent Detroit. City Farmer News 15 Dec. 2008 Detroit expel PressWeb. 3 Jun. 2012. Academic Search Complete. http//www.cityfarmer.info/2008/12/23/acres-of-barren-blocks-offer-chance-to-reinvent-detroit/Martin, Michel. Detroit Truck Responds To Citys Food Desert Crisis. National Public Radio 2 Nov. 2010 NewsWeb. 9 Apr. 2012. NPR. http//www.npr.org/templates/ tale/story.php?storyId=131000846 Wilgoren, Jodi. Detroit Urban Renewal Without the Renewal. The New York Times (2002) 1-3. Web. 3 Jun. 2012. Google Scholar. http//www-personal.umich.edu/gmarkus/Wilgoren_DetroitUrbanRenewal.pdf