The Fruit of Folks Project: An Urban Farming Response to Local Hunger Background: Obesity, Food Insecurity, and the Rise of Urban Farming

Abstract

Just as the global feast and famine induced by the industrial food model have beenredefined as conjoined problems stemming from a singular source, obesity and food insecurity inthe United States are increasingly understood as phenomena that are no longermutuallyexclusive. Counter intuitively, the industrial model’s emphasis on producing ever greaterquantities of food actually threatens food security, which refers to a person’sor community’sability to “have access at all times to enough food for an active, healthylife” (McClintock 2011).