News, research, projects and reflections on urban-rural reconnection.
The urban-rural dualism is at the core of many environmental, social, economic challenges we face today. Cities are seen as place of consumption while countryside are perceived as place of production, most of the time exploiting lands and damaging the existing natural environment or affecting local communities.
Consumers living in urban areas are detached from the food they consume and their producers, while farmers are part of a complex system that over the years has forced them to produce more to feed consumers at the lowest possible price at the cost of environmental damage.
The urban-rural division is at the core of depopulation of rural areas too and over population of few cities that offer services and job opportunities. This means increasingly less investment in smaller towns to provide essential services, infrastructure and job opportunities but also loss of cultura heritage and identities.
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