TY - JOUR AU - Zurayk, Rami PY - 2010/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - GLOBAL VIEWS OF LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS: From Incidental to Essential: Urban Agriculture in the Middle East JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - Column DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2010.012.001 UR - https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/23 SP - 13-15 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><p>There is a huge mall overflowing with high-ticket brands right opposite my house, in one of the busiest neighborhoods of Amman, the capital of Jordan. It sits exactly where, eight years ago, I helped an old farmer harvest his wheat field. But this is not an unusual event in Amman. Less than a mile away, in the posh neighborhood of Abdoun, there is a carefully tended field of cauliflowers opposite one of the European embassies. A couple of miles away, in the valley behind the U.S. Embassy, a flock of sheep grazes the barren steppe.</p> ER -