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PRESENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF ROOFTOP FARMING IN KATHMANDU CITY [PDF]
Engineering Heritage Journal, 2022 Rooftop farming is the cultivation of different food crops in the roof of buildings which is usually done in the city areas where there is scarcity of open agricultural land.
Deepak Marasini +5 more
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Urban farming with rooftop greenhouses: A systematic literature review [PDF]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 The environmental impacts of food systems will increase in tandem with rapid urban population growth, which calls for alternative solutions, such as urban agriculture, to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Among several urban agriculture systems, rooftop farming and its subset, rooftop greenhouses, are promising technologies.
Annie Drottberger +2 more
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Assessment of the Status of Rooftop Garden, Its Diversity, and Determinants of Urban Green Roofs in Nepal [PDF]
Scientifica, 2022 In recent days, the practice of adopting rooftop garden can be seen in urban areas of developing countries, but a successful adoption of well-equipped green roofs is still lacking and is limited to open farms.
Sara Rawal, Sandesh Thapa
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Monitoring of a Productive Blue-Green Roof Using Low-Cost Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Considering the rising concern over climate change and the need for local food security, productive blue-green roofs (PBGR) can be an effective solution to mitigate many relevant environmental issues. However, their cost of operation is high because they
Afsana Alam Akhie, Darko Joksimovic
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Rooftop Farm Soils for Sustainable Water and Nitrogen Management [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Rooftop farming intends to diversify options for enhancing sustainability of cities. From a policy perspective, vegetable production and stormwater management are among important goals of rooftop farming for bolstering public funding and policy support ...
Yoshiki Harada +3 more
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Nitrogen Biogeochemistry of an Urban Rooftop Farm [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Intensive agriculture represents a recent extension of green roof technology. Perceived ecosystem services provided by rooftop farming include stormwater management and the production of affordable and nutritious vegetables for local consumption. However,
Yoshiki Harada +6 more
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Journal of Urban Management, 2017 Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is one of the most populated megacity in the world and the population growth in this city is extremely high. To support growing food demand of increasing population, food supply should be secure and sustainable.
Mastura Safayet
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Biochar-based organic substrates enhance tomato growth by promoting specific microbial communities in rooftop farming [PDF]
Environmental MicrobiomeBackground Urban agriculture represents an opportunity to alleviate some of the issues related with the increased urbanization and global human population.
Miguel de Celis +7 more
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Promoting Urban Farming for Creating Sustainable Cities in Nepal
Urban Science, 2023 This paper responds to the research question, “can urban farming in Nepal help create sustainable cities?” Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to realize that food transported from long distances is not always reliable ...
Keshav Bhattarai, Ambika P. Adhikari
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Enabling circularity for food safety: the rooftop farming model
International Journal of Agriculture Environment and Food Sciences, 2023 Population growth, environmental change, urbanization, consumption patterns, waste, the global political climate, conflicts, and infectious diseases all exert a strain on global food security. Access to sufficient and nutritious food is becoming increasingly problematic, particularly for individuals living in less developed and developing countries ...
Tufan Özsoy
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