November 2nd, 2009 
admin There has been considerable debate about the form of housing was right, a better social form for sustainable agriculture. In general, it is assumed that local communities can improve the sustainability of these communities, its position on a collaborative environment that supports agriculture offer.
Many environmentalists urge increased population density has received to the land so that urban sprawl is less sustainable in the countryside and more environmentally friendly than live in cities, where the cars are no longer needed because food and other necessities are within walking distance. However, other hypotheses have to ensure that sustainable Ecocities or eco-villages, residential and agriculture with the proximity between producers and consumers connect, can provide a longer shelf life.
The use of urban space is available (eg on the rooftop and community gardens) for cooperative food production is another means for achieving greater sustainability.
One of the latest ideas in sustainable agriculture includes relocation of production of food crops from farm to large plant large, urban, technical facilities, the “vertical farms. The advantages of vertical farming are year-round production, isolation from pests and diseases, controllable resource recycling and the production site, which accounts for the need for transport. Even if a vertical farm are not yet a reality, the idea is gaining ground among those who believe that current sustainable farming methods are not sufficient to produce a global populations future 8 to provide 11 billion people.
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