An urban farm developed on a former landfill site in northern Thailand boosted the food security and livelihoods of poor families during the coronavirus pandemic, and can be a model for unused spaces in other cities, urban experts said on Thursday.
The farm in Chiang Mai, about 700 kilometres from the capital Bangkok, took shape during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus last year, when many of the city’s residents lost their tourism-dependent jobs.
A woman tends to her patch of an urban farm that was built at the site of a landfill to support poor and homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 20th December, 2020. PICTURE: Rina Chandran/Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, a community architect who works on housing…
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