Any agro-economist will tell you that urban farming creates jobs. Even without local production, the food industry creates three dollars of job growth for every dollar spent on food—a larger multiplier effect than almost any other product or industry. Farm a city, and that figure jumps over five dollars. To a community with persistent two-digit unemployment, that number is manna. But that’s only one economic advantage of farming a city
via guernicamag.com
That just means that agriculture is labour-intensive.
There was a reason why the Industrial Revolution *LIFTED* people out of poverty.
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