Luisa Oliveira – Enabling and Protecting Urban Agriculture

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Featuring Luisa Oliveira, Landscape architect, City of Somerville.

Luisa Oliveira led the team that developed an urban agriculture ordinance for Somerville, the first in New England. She speaks on the traditions, benefits and value of growing urban food, and the challenges of regulating agriculture in a densely populated city.

Presented at the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming Conference, organized by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, at Harvard University on May 3, 2015.

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