ABSTRACT
The present urban food supply system, involving the use of agrochemicals, crop and animal production, food processing, storage and distribution relies on complex global transport networks that generate serious environmental impacts, particularly those arising from fossil fuel consumption. Developing urban and peri-urban agriculture helps to reduce the environmental impacts of the food system and its dependence on fossil fuels, and also provides a means of improving food security, in the face of economic and climatic vulnerability. Environmental justice is highly complex, both socially and in terms of policy, and it is usually the groups identified with low socio-economic profiles that suffer from a greater burden of environmental impacts. The city’s Council for the Protection of Nature supports the preservation of the agricultural area of the Llobregat River and its agro-economic activity by means of an agricultural park.
