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Through Agricultural Urbanism there exists an opportunity for British Columbia to pursue unprecedented research,modeling, outreach programming and leading-edge development to address two of society’s most pressing and linkedchallenges- urban and agricultural sustainability.Agricultural Urbanism prescribes the full integration of the agri-food system within the planning, design, development andfunction of cities and vice-versa. Agricultural Urbanism is a mechanism to connect urbanites to their environment and totheir agri-food system, reduce their dependence on an ecologically unsound and increasingly vulnerable global-scale agrifoodsystem and create a significant regional economic sector.