Disseminating Urban Agriculture World Summit Declaration to the world

Urban Agriculture World Summit was held in Nerima City, Tokyo, and attended by representatives of five other cities that are also proactively promoting urban agriculture initiatives: Jakarta, London, New York, Seoul, and Toronto. Summit participants learned from one another’s urban agriculture efforts, shared information, and engaged in lively discussion.
In order for people in cities around the world to proudly live in harmony with agriculture and lead sustainable and abundant urban lives, the participants agreed upon the following declaration affirming the significance and potential of urban agriculture.

Urban agriculture provides the staff of life to people in cities by producing agricultural goods. Urban agriculture can be an important strategy to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Moreover, it promotes urban sustainability and nurtures lives.

Urban agriculture connects people with one another and with nature. Based on these links, people in cities pass on, create, and develop historical and cultural traditions.

Urban agriculture has the ability to create platforms for everyone to learn about and engage in agriculture on equal terms, and to share equally in its bounty. This resolves social issues and creates just and open societies.

We will continue to communicate the appeal and potential of urban agriculture to the people of the world. Utilizing networks built up by this summit, we will collaborate in contributing to the development of urban agriculture by opening up possibilities and extending new initiatives.

The Participants

Urban Agriculture World Summit

The representatives from the 5 overseas participating cities and a farmer of Nerima conducted vigorous discussions with each other on the stage. The venue was fully packed and the attendees were eagerly attentive to their urban agricultural presentations as well as the panel discussion.

At the time of Pre-Event held last year, 3 organizations won the prizes in the section of the plans for city life co-existing with agriculture, and they conducted for 1 year the prize-winning projects. In this contest, they delivered the presentations of the projects and each of them got Grand Prize, JA Tokyo Aoba Special Prize or Audience Prize as stated below.At the time of Pre-Event held last year, 3 organizations won the prizes in the section of the plans for city life co-existing with agriculture, and they conducted for 1 year the prize-winning projects. In this contest, they delivered the presentations of the projects and each of them got Grand Prize, JA Tokyo Aoba Special Prize or Audience Prize as stated below.