Growing pains: Successes and barriers in London, Ontario’s urban agriculture strategy

Urban agriculture (UA) is gaining momentum across Canada in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, with growing public interest and municipal responses such as the City of London, Ontario’s 2017 London Urban Agriculture Strategy (LUAS). This paper examines the implementation and impact of the LUAS, drawing on interviews and workshop insights from for-profit and nonprofit urban food producers, processors, and distributors. Building on a prior study by Miedema (2019) of the city’s Hamilton Road neigh...