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Cities Developing Urban Agriculture Codes

Urban agriculture has become increasingly popular in recent years as a way to deal with vacant properties, revitalize neighborhoods, and provide job skills and nutrition to local residents struggling with poverty and a lack of access to fresh produce.

In Austin, Texas, a working group of the Sustainable Food Policy Board is meeting to clarify and update city code related to urban farms, livestock, size of farm, employees and dwellings, according to the Austin Chronicle.

The working group has been holding public sessions to gather input from urban farmers and community members about pending updates to the urban farm ordinance.

In April 2013, the Flint Farmers' Market reported that the Detroit City Council adopted the city's first urban agriculture zoning ordinance recognizing agriculture as a legitimate land use and setting standards for it.

Other cities working to update or create urban agriculture codes include Boston, Massachusetts;
Fort Collins, Colorado; and Portland, Oregon.

For more information, see USDA's National Ag Library webpage on Urban Agriculture.

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Overview

Whether enjoyed in cigars or kreteks, snus or hookahs, cigarettes or beedis, dipped, chewed, or sniffed, tobacco is used by more than 1 billion people across the world (WHO). The addictive nicotine found in tobacco provides pleasure to its users by triggering the release of opioids and dopamine in the brain (Smoking).

Researchers are exploring medicinal and nutritional uses for tobacco, which has been identified by economists as one of the top ten crops grown in the United States according to its market value. December 2012 . . . Tobacco

Links

2002 Census of Agriculture Data, National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS), USDA.
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA).
Breed’s Collection of Tobacco History Sites.
Census of Horticultural Specialties (2009), NASS, USDA, 2010 - The census provides the only comprehensive, detailed data on U.S. floriculture, nursery and specialty crop production at the national and state levels.
The Changing Tobacco User’s Dollar, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA, 2004.
Crop Production Annual Summary, NASS, USDA.
Crop Values Annual Summary, NASS, USDA.
Crop Profile for Tobacco Production in Tennessee, 2008.
Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS), Foreign Ag Service, USDA.
Long-Lived Tobacco Program to End, Amber Waves, ERS, USDA, 2005.
Orzechowski and Walker, The Tax Burden on Tobacco: Historical Compilation 2004, Southern Legislative Conference (SLC), 2002.
Statistical Database-Agriculture, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), United Nations.
Tobacco Background, ERS, USDA.
Tobacco Costs and Returns Data, ERS, USDA.
The Tobacco Industry Downsizing, Restructuring, ERS, USDA, 2002.
Tobacco Policy, ERS, USDA.
Tobacco Quota Buyout, CRS Report for Congress.
Tobacco Yearbook Data Tables, ERS, USDA, 2005.
Trends in the Cigarette Industry After the Master Settlement Agreement, ERS Electronic Outlook Reports TBS 250-01, USDA, 2001.
Trends in Tobacco Farming, ERS, USDA, 2004.
U.S .Tobacco Industry Responding to New Competitors, New Challenges, Amber Waves, ERS, USDA, 2003.
U.S. Tobacco Sector Regroups, Amber Waves, ERS, USDA, 2006.

Links checked December 2012.

Tobacco, Field Crops: 2007 and 2002, 2007 Census of Agriculture, NASS, USDA, 2009.

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