ABSTRACT
Asian food is well known throughout the world, and cities in Asia are recognized as places where food is abundant. However, similar to other cities elsewhere, mainstream food systems are shaped by monopoly food corporations (Kennedy and Liljeblad 2016) and depends on food transportation from remote rural areas. Increasing interest in community-based food production is one of the urban phenomena of today. The community-based food production movement is a bottom-up force of change amidst urbanization. Urban residents as full-time or part-time farmers in this movement argue that structural and market forces are not the only forces at play in driving urban developments across the region. These people also illustrate the rise of civil society in mobilizing to establish their voices as stakeholders in the making of the city, its surroundings and its functions.
