As diesel prices increase in Sydney, farmers are unable to transport their produce to market. Cheap and reliable oil has led us to grow uninhibited, forcing us to carry above 100% capacity. This presentation gives alternatives to the crisis by creating vertical farming, expanding the production zones and creating a new layout for backyards, golf courses and vertical farms productive zones. We can look to Cuba for an urban agriculture precedent to protect our food supply.

2. the introduction sydney’s role in nsw vegetable production, historical developments the challenge future modes of production and their capacity to support us the vision challenges facing sydney’s agriculture the synopsis

3. 1500 growers, 34 % of nsw total produce 40% of fresh market perishable vegetables in nsw 9% of total land used for growing vegetable in nsw murrumbidgee e central and north west murray north coast sydney nsw vegetable growing regions

8. Agriculture in the 1950’s

10. sw growth centre

11. crisis diesel hits $8.59 per litre in sydney farmers are unable to transport their produce to market sydney produce markets are forced to close their doors the city is in turmoil

13. Proposed Production zones

14. production zone layout

15. 67 of 84 golf courses converted to agricultural land

17. Remaining course catchments

18. Each course will provide 8500 20 m² community allotments + 17 ha commercial production

20. retrofit 50 % of buildings in sydney’s CBD north Sydney st leonards chatswood average height 25 stories

27. 50 just % over

31. precedent cuba: urban agriculture havanna, cuba’s capital has 200,000 urban farm plots, ranging in size from a few metres to a hectare producing yields between 6 and 30 kilos per square metre. urban agriculture became a necessity for survival and by 2000 production had climbed to more than 600,000 metric tonnes . after the crisis of 1989, cuba was faced with a shortage of petroleum necessary to transport, refrigerate, and store food available from the rural agricultural sector