Urban agriculture continues to gain traction in cities across North America. Many such efforts pursue social justice objectives with mixed success. This paper examines two urban agriculture projects in Toronto, Canada, to demonstrate the challenges of pursuing social justice goals via urban agriculture. Despite a long history of municipal and civil society support for urban agriculture in Toronto, stakeholders continually face bureaucratic obstacles that make growing food on public land inaccessible for groups without significant resources. Relying on Swyngedouw’s theories of the post-political condition, this paper finds that a seemingly depoliticized food governance focusing exclusively on processes of urban agriculture obscures questions about who benefits from such processes, which can pave the way for uneven development. This research contributes to literature on environmental justice and food governance by attending to municipal challenges to achieving social justice goals in urban agriculture projects.

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通过粮食系统治理来支持社会正义的挑战：多伦多两项城市农业计划的例子

都市农业继续在北美各城市引起关注。许多这样的努力追求社会正义的目标，但取得了不同的成功。本文研究了加拿大多伦多的两个城市农业项目，以展示通过城市农业实现社会正义目标的挑战。尽管市政和民间社会对多伦多城市农业的支持已有很长的历史，但利益相关者仍然面临官僚主义的障碍，这使得没有大量资源的团体无法获得在公共土地上种植的粮食。依靠Swyngedouw关于后政治状况的理论，本文发现，仅集中于都市农业进程的看似去政治化的粮食治理掩盖了有关谁从此类进程中受益的问题，这可以为不均衡的发展铺平道路。