Abstract

MORENO GAYTAN, Silvia Iveth. Between the community and scarcity: The practice of urban agriculture in the eastern zone of the Valley of Mexico. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2022, n.81, pp.24-47.  Epub Jan 01, 2022. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.81.2022.807.

The main objective of the present paper is to address the function of urban agriculture as a practice of appropriation of urban space and community construction aimed at generating local food. The text analyzes a triple case study in which qualitative techniques were applied in popular peripheral areas to the east of the metropolitan area of Mexico City, which shows the innovations and food practices on a micro scale that are little valued outside of the local sphere due to the low technological and digital capital for the spreading of their scope. The results present particular features on the revaluation of idle spaces and ecological reserves within urban areas, as well as the construction of differentiated ways of inhabiting urban contexts and the way in which the sense of belonging of a community that recovers territorial resources is woven through the recognition of critical moments that influence the reinvention of practices and the generation of mutual support strategies.

Keywords : agriculture; local; urban; popular neighborhoods; territory.

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