[Foodplanning] Announcing the Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge Program

[Alethea Marie Harper]

*Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at UC Berkeley Initiates the
Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge Program
*
In recognition of agriculture as an integral system for sustaining
metropolitan regions, the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies is pleased
to initiate the Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge (AME) program.  The AME
program will engage faculty, students, and practitioners in an in-depth
investigation of systems-based and place-based urban-rural interface
issues.  Through research projects, symposia, publications, outreach, and
demonstration projects, the program will explore periurban agriculture as
one of the basic frameworks for understanding and managing the growth of
metropolitan regions worldwide.

AME projects will investigate urban-rural interface issues including land
use policies and economics, role of local food systems and artisan foods,
environmental services and impacts, and vitality of rural
communities.  Specific research topics identified to date include assessment
studies of a proposed urban-rural interface intermediary land-use
designation, and the quantification of values and functions of urban edge
agriculture.  A primary AME program focus for the coming year will be
producing a symposium called New Ruralism:  Planning for Agriculture at the
Metropolitan Edge.  The purpose of this symposium, scheduled for April 5th
and 6th, 2007 at UC Berkeley, is to bring together researchers,
practitioners, producers and policy makers involved in bridging sustainable
agriculture and smart growth.

The AME program will be directed by Sibella Kraus.  As a nonprofit director,
journalist, and project developer, Ms. Kraus has received natioanal
recognition for her contributions to the advancement of sustainable
agriculture.  For more information, and to view the official annoucement,
please see the attached file.

Best regards,

Alethea Marie Harper
Graduate Student Researcher
Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge Program
Global Metropolitan Studies
University of California, Berkeley
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