Community Agriculture Development and Jobs Act: A Proposed Solution to

Community Agriculture Development and Jobs Act A Proposed Solution to Food Deserts There can be no sustainable world without sustainable cities. (Deelstra, 2000) This applies to many aspects of a city, but what is more important than the topic of fresh food? Sustainable foods will be the alkali of the wellbeing of a community. We not only need these nutrients to support our bodies every day, but it also supports the wellbeing of a society. So why are we illiterate to how many cities are lacking fresh food? The high concentration of food deserts in the United States has gone unnoticed, especially in Detroit, Michigan. In the city of Detroit, researchers spend a penny developed concern and acknowledged the lack of fresh food available since 1997 (National Research Council). Since then, they have found that highly concentrated mendicancy stricken areas are receiving inadequate help from the government via food stamp programs and city food indemnity and distribution. Our agricultur al system parallels the mono-crops we grow. American farm policy and corporate mergers have created powerful agribusiness giants with rife market sharescorporations that control virtually every of segment of the industrial food system. (food and farm bill, 2012). Similar to the dominant monocrops that are limiting the diversity of species and crops grown in the U.S., our conventional way of farming has outcompeted all other food growing techniques even though it is unsustainable. Since we have realized that one systematic way of feeding the nation is not working, we must establish a variety of growing systems that accommodate the diverse and mixed forms of societies and communities by geographic location. Detroit, Michigan is considered one of th... ...Health in Detroit. Marie Gallagher Research and Consulting Group,2007. Web. Accessed May 10, 2012. http//marigallagher.com/site_media/dynamic/project_files/1_DetroitFoodDesertReport_Full.pdf 10 May 2012.Gallagher, John. Acres of bar ren blocks offer chance to create Detroit. City Farmer News 15 Dec. 2008 Detroit Free PressWeb. 3 Jun. 2012. Academic Search Complete. http//www.cityfarmer.info/2008/12/23/acres-of-barren-blocks-offer-chance-to-reinvent-detroit/Martin, Michel. Detroit Truck Responds To Citys Food Desert Crisis. National national Radio 2 Nov. 2010 NewsWeb. 9 Apr. 2012. NPR. http//www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131000846 Wilgoren, Jodi. Detroit Urban Renewal Without the Renewal. The New York Times (2002) 1-3. Web. 3 Jun. 2012. Google Scholar. http//www-personal.umich.edu/gmarkus/Wilgoren_DetroitUrbanRenewal.pdf