Blog Urban Agriculture Congress 2014 in Seville

From 13 to 15 March, Utrera (Seville) will host the II National Urban Agriculture Congress 2014. Thanks to the installation of a large number of social orchards, Utrera has become a worldwide reference in the field of farming. For this reason Utrera has been designated to host the II Congress of Urban and Peri-Urban Farming. Urban gardens, self consumption and social participation.

Utrera is worldwide reference ecological agriculture

The urban and periurban agriculture has an important role in society. It is very interesting to meet aspects such elemental as ecological restoration, natural resource consumption, nutrition and health, food safety or environmental education among other proposal. In fact, this type of agriculture offers the possibility that the citizen is the producer of his own foods, reducing costs a minimal manner and getting the product instantly. In Andalusia, the interest to develop urban gardens is growing very significantly. Utrera is at the top, in terms of urban agriculture is concerned. In the V Centenario Park, nearly a hundred social orchards have been developed, to which must be added those which will start operating in the Orange grove of the Castle. This has caused Utrera will host the second edition of this conference (the first took place in Elche, Alicante) with the main objectives of know the current state and developments of the urban and periurban agriculture ecological, exchange experiences and technical innovations in the development of urban and peri-urban organic gardens and provide guidelines and recommendations for the future development of this sector.