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. He is an associate of Ryerson University’s Centre for Studies in Food Security, and co-curator of the traveling exhibit, book and website Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture. Joe is co founder 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. Joe teaches regularly at Ryerson courses on urban agriculture and food security and has taught at a number of universities in several countries.