Overview of Laws for Urban Agriculture in Brazil: Association with Urban Planning

Panorama de las Leyes de Agricultura Urbana en Brasil: Relaciones con la Planificación Urbana

Abstract

The growing interest in urban agriculture (UA) over the past decades is followed by increase in regulations. Yet, there has been no systematic documentation and featuring of several UA laws that have emerged in Brazil, or of their association with urban planning. We developed a framework to understand the profile of federal and state UA laws in order to shine light on this gap in the literature. Therefore, we cataloged and analyzed the laws we have found. Based on the results, there is still no coordinated national policy to it. We also found that these laws cover several production practices under UA’s wide umbrella. They only vaguely mention their interfaces with urban-policy legal frameworks, and they do not clearly address territorial challenges to UA implementation.

Keywords:
Urban agriculture; urban planning; law; regulation; regulatory instruments; public policy