Food Production on Asphalt: urban Agriculture for Sustainable development in the City

The article describes the activities that social organizations in popular neighborhoods carry out to be included in the discussion regarding sustainable development, food sovereignty, and new ways to produce food: urban Agriculture. These categories are based on the social practice in popular neighborhoods in defense of food, it is an alternative that, at the same time, questions the conventional forms of production/consumption/commerce of the market and the institutions where food is simply merchandise. The arguments are built on the social facts happening in the metropolitan Area of the valley of mexico (East Side) with the organization "union de Colonos e Inquilinos Solicitantes de vivienda Libertad" in the CANANEA housing unit. The information was gathered through qualitative tools of social research from 2014 to 2017, which serve to explain the "innovations" that the social organizations in popular neighborhoods articulate to demonstrate that there are actions against the prevailing lines of sustainable development. For this reason, through the study case we can conclude that in the city are generated food sovereignty scales with an agroecological Agriculture urban and Fair Trade.