Abstract
Agriculture has traditionally been the basis of Turkey's national economy. Capital Ankara is a special laboratory to view this sector's development, its politics, and transformation since the Republic's foundation in 1923. This chapter initially presents interrelated concepts, draws a thorough historical background of underlying national forces, and examines the present state of peri-urban agriculture over three cases from Ankara, where intensive, informal, and individual farming are applied. The chapter, while overviewing pressures created on the fringe areas and rural communities, mainly directs its attention on how these three cases will find place in the market for survival and for feeding the city. In conclusion, the tools of governance and planning, empowering rural–urban interactions, interconnected solutions of circular economy, and climate smart agriculture will be discussed, distinguishing agriculture as a vital sociocultural landscape with local know-how to be safeguarded cautiously, providing an important resilience for urban food security and environmental sustainability.
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