Saturday 19 November 2022 15.00-16.30 @ BRLSI Elwin Room
This talk explores some “hidden” aspects of urban farming through a myriad of examples across latitudes from Porto Rico to France and from the UK to the Netherlands. The contribution of urban farmers is largely over-looked in local, regional, and global food systems. However, urban farming spaces fulfil much more than just vegetables and leafy green productions: they are spaces for community connection, biodiversity habitats, and local innovation. A participatory approach is employed to encourage audiences to share their own urban agriculture experiences.
Dr Georges Félix is a French-Puerto Rican agroecologist, currently a co-chair of the Stabilisation Agriculture Programme at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) of Coventry University in England, UK. Besides his work with Cultivate!, Georges currently co-teaches the Stabilisation Agriculture module within Coventry University’s MSc Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty. He also gives lectures within the BA Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Puerto Rico at Utuado (UPRU) and within the joint MSc Organic Agriculture Programme between Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and ISARA-Lyon (France). In his free time, Georges enjoys cooking self-produced veggies, practicing watercolour painting, and trekking through a variety of nature trails.