ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the general relevance of Henri Lefebvre’s research to questions around the rise of urban agriculture (UA) as both spatial tactic and strategy within a broader production of sustainable urban space. Lefebvre helps them consider UA beyond describing or cataloguing local food-growing practices to critically grasp it as a contingent moment in the co-production of urban space. The landscape of UA extends beyond the fences of community gardens, backyard chicken coops, and beehives to entangle an increasing assortment of places and spaces–local and global; urban and rural; public and private; real and imagined. Discussion around UA emerged in the context of the Global South as way to address poverty, malnutrition, and food insecurity. Where most studies using Lefebvre to understand UA have focused on the tactics involved in claiming the ‘right to the city’ through gardening practice, the chapter highlights the need to open inquiry up to a broader, dialectical inquiry into the production of UA space.
