Home Gardening for Global Food Security

Understanding the complexities that surround current global food security issues is an endeavor that requires an interdisciplinary approach that looks not only at the environmental factors affecting production, but also at the sociological aspects that can limit an individuals access to adequate food supplies. A review of home food production by past generations and the reemergence of policies to promote home food production in our modern cities are analyzed to see how these interdisciplinary factors play a part in reducing food insecurity.

The author is a MSc graduate of Environmental Science from the UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development (IESD) at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. Her research focused on the use of interdisciplinary studies to understand how environmental and sociological aspects affect the development of sustainable practices.