ABSTRACT
For the first time in human history, a majority of humans now reside in urban, as opposed to rural areas, and this trend will continue to increase. Concomitantly, gentrification, a ubiquitous form of development within and across urban areas, is rising on a global scale. This chapter examines how food justice and permaculture activists are responding to both global phenomena and includes examples affecting specific locales. This analysis seeks to compare and contrast how these global developments are shaping theoretical and practical approaches of these two movements within the context of both the global and local in this critical time for people and the planet.
