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Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in the EU

Jun 23, 2018

PURPLE participated in the European Parliament AGRI Committee meeting on June 20 2018. As part of the meeting, Dr Annette Piorr and Dr Ingo Zasada, from the Leibnitz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) presented results of a study entitled  'Urban and peri-urban agriculture in the EU', See also: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/agri/home.html

Both the report and the presentation given on the day reference PURPLE and its role as a champion of peri-urban interests since 2004. The report can be downloaded here – specific references to PURPLE can be found at pp75-6 and references the PURPLE “founding paper”, its Topic Paper on food security and the Peri-urban Charter.

The research report, published on the day, set out to provide information and make an argument for greater recognition of the role that can be played by peri-urban, as well as urban, agriculture. The report goes on to set out some recommendations as to how these particular types of agricultural activity should be taken into account in the emerging policy agenda across different sectors, domains and governance levels.

The Leibnitz Centre has invited PURPLE to respond more specifically on peri-urban dimensions of the report as part of a broader process of exploring how they might collaborate in the future.