Abstract

MADALENO, Isabel María  and  ARMIJO, Gladys. Urban agriculture in metrópolis from Iberian America: Santiago, Chile and Lisboa, Portugal. Invest. Geog [online]. 2004, n.54, pp.36-54. ISSN 2448-7279.

Nearly half mankind lives in cities and increasingly in big metrópolis. Inclusive social, cultural, economic and environmental polides are necessary in order to make urban centres more sustainable. Thus agriculture practises within the urban tissue and in peripheral settings, especially when chemical inputs are avoided, are a must for life quality improvement as well as poverty alleviation schemes. Research undertaken aimed to establish a comparison between inner and peri-urban agriculture in national capitals belonging to the same bio-climatic domain - Lisbon, Portugal and Santiago, Chile. Methodology and techniques combine satellite imagery digital work, census data analysis, and samples extracted through fieldwork. Favourable public polides aiming cultivation inside cities were the main focus, towards greener metropolises.

Keywords : Urban agriculture; environmental education; Santiago de Chile; Lisboa; Portugal.

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