Vision

Virtually all the projects that TransForum has carried out in recent years support the vision that agriculture and the metropolitan environment should connect or reconnect with each other in the interests of more sustainable agriculture. This we refer to as "metropolitan agriculture".

The essence of metropolitan agriculture is that the urbanised environment in fact offers great opportunities for the more sustainable development of agriculture. Conversely, agriculture is indispensable for the more sustainable development of those urban areas.

Metropolitan agriculture covers many different kinds of agricultural activity and means of organising the agroproduction chain can be organised (such as agroparks, care farming and alternative forms of distribution to help commercialise that sustainable value). In all cases, the activities must take place in a metropolitan environment, are explicitly concerned with the divergent needs of the urban population and make use of the urban characteristics of that environment.

For more information on metropolitan agriculture, please visit the projects' pages or download the brochure Agriculture and the city: a sustained interplay. You can also join our LinkedIn group on metropolitan agriculture.