CEDTI Workshop
- infocitds
- May 27
- 1 min read
Let us question self-sufficiency, no longer on a national scale, but on our own: how can we produce our own food? Mauritius has long been an agricultural island, but focused on sugar monoculture for export, while importing a large part of its food. Today, the island imports 70% of its food needs (FAO): should we continue this way? The root of the word agriculture, ager, refers to the space of the field - prepared, maintained, cultivated. But in our case, this field has always distanced us from food farming. Today, in a post-agricultural Mauritius, dominated by the service sector, our workplaces - offices, terraces, parking lots, rooftops - are spaces of productivity, but not of production. However, these are available spaces, present in our daily lives, which are under-mobilized. What if we rethought the field in our workplace? What if our workplaces themselves became fields, cultivated on a small scale, without industry, alone or in groups? Can we become agro-professionals? How to get started, what to mobilize? This is the question we are asking the audience of The Hive and the general public in a workshop organized by the Center for Indo-Oceanic Territorial Development Studies in collaboration with The Hive Workspace. Far from being utopian, this approach is part of an initiative for a local transition. It all starts at our level, in our daily spaces. Self-sufficiency begins with being self-sufficient - and with a first step: cultivating something, where you are.
Event Name: From Concrete to Green: Repurposing Urban Spaces for Micro-Farming
Date & Time: 30 May 2025, 11.00 am to 12.00 pm
Location: The Hive, Nouvelle Usine, Floréal
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