Dr. Joe Nasr

Joe Nasr is an independent scholar, lecturer and consultant based in Toronto who has been exploring urban agriculture and food security issues for a quarter century.  He holds a 1997 doctorate in urban and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania and has received several fellowships over the years, including in Lebanon and Jordan.  Joe is founding co-coordinator of Toronto Urban Growers and member of the Toronto Food Policy Council.  He is co-author or co-editor of four books and dozens of articles, including the seminal book Urban Agriculture; he is also co-editor of the Springer Urban Agriculture Book Series.  A book he co-edited in 2004, Interfaces: Agricultures et villes à l’Est et au Sud de la Méditerranée, has been translated into Arabic.  Joe coordinated in 2005-2007 a project on “Regional Training and Knowledge Sharing in Urban Agriculture for the Middle East and North Africa”.  He is co-curator of the traveling exhibit, book and website Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture.  Joe teaches regularly at Ryerson courses on urban agriculture and food security and has taught at a number of universities in several countries.