Urban agriculture is a strategy for empowering people involved in this activity, maintaining
the urban environment and improving the population's quality of life. Agroecology can be the
key to building agrifood systems that fight hunger and promote sustainable agricultural
practices, and this fact also happens through urban agriculture (AU). Urban agriculture
provides the opportunity for needy families to earn an income by growing food for
consumption and/or commercialization. In addition, urban agriculture promotes our purpose
for idle spaces in the urban environment, as well as the appreciation of the environment.
Given this scenario, this work seeks to present the public policies and initiatives of Urban
Agriculture in the municipality of Palmas/TO, demonstrate through maps the public areas
with potential for agroecological urban agriculture projects in the study region and propose
the Agroecological Gardens project, with the inclusion of environmental education for
vulnerable communities in the city of Palmas/TO. With this, it is intended to establish
inclusive actions to strengthen the agroecological transition in urban family farming and in the
collective construction of new sustainable practices of production and environmental
education. As a result of this work, the main urban agriculture initiatives in the municipality
were exposed, as twelve areas with potential to develop agroecological urban agriculture in
the municipality of Palmas/TO, in the extreme North and South regions, were mapped, as
they are places with a predominance of vulnerable families.The Agroecological Vegetable
Gardens Project was also proposed, in order to promote development and ensure awareness
focused on environmental conservation, supported by organizations involved in
agroecological insertion, environmental education and food and nutrition security.
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