Embedding agroecology’s soil care principle in the urbanised society: the case of Flanders

In recent years, challenges such as climate change adaptation and dealing with the biodiversity crisis have drawn the attention of the urbanised society on the importance of soil stewardship. We believe agroecological farmers and food growers could play an important role, as the care for living soils is a fundamental principle in agroecology. However, current urbanisation dynamics deeply affect this potential. In the context of the food disabling city (Tornaghi, 2017), living soils are actively destroyed, and soil care is not mandatory, not common, nor structurally valued or supported. To over... Mehr ...