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Título del libro: The Earthscan Reader In Rural-Urban Linkages
Título del capítulo: Urban Agriculture in the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City: Changes over Time in Urban, Suburban and Peri-Urban Areas

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2018
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This chapter describes the transformation of agriculture in Mexico City from a conventional rural form to a new urbanized model, as a reaction to urban development and the availability of waste products from the city as well as a response to the demands of recreation and tourism. Such centres include the metropolitan food supply depot in Iztapalapa which, constructed on an ancient area of chinampa, generates huge quantities of fruit and vegetable waste. The local authorities have attempted to stall the process of environmental degradation with ambitious reforestation plans, proposing the use of non-native species such as eucalyptus. The urban agricultural production space is derived from the livestock practices that existed before the process of urbanization. The dominant population in the urban space is a heterogeneous local or migrant one which has maintained its own culture, and the lack of agricultural space has ensured that animals are culturally and socially linked to the human environment. © 2006, International Institute for Environment and Development.


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