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Urban Agriculture and its Sustainability Implications on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

open access: yesEDIS, 2023
Urban agriculture has the potential to contribute to urban sustainability through its interactions with food, water, and energy (FEW) resource flows, and thus needs to be evaluated and analyzed through an integrative rather than a siloed approach.
Jiangxiao Qiu   +3 more
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Study on Evaluation, Regional Differences and Driving Factors of Modern Urban Agriculture in Guangdong-Hong KongMacao Greater Bay Area

open access: yesGuangdong nongye kexue, 2023
【Objective】 The study was conducted to build an evaluation system of modern urban agriculture, measure urban agriculture development level and differences in different areas in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area(GBA), analyse the driving factors,
TIAN Puyu, ZHANG Danting, ZHOU Canfang
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How Does Urban Farming Benefit Participants? Two Case Studies of the Garden City Initiative in Taipei

open access: yesLand, 2022
In discussions on urban food security and healthy aging, urban agriculture is described in the context of changing approaches to sustainable urban development under crises.
Yan Zhou, Chunjui Wei, Yong Zhou
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Global Trends in Urban Agriculture Research: A Pathway toward Urban Resilience and Sustainability

open access: yesLand, 2022
Urban agriculture has been proposed as an important urban element to deal with the challenges of food insecurity and environmental deterioration.
Dan Yan   +3 more
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Social aspect of urban agriculture with examples from Croatia [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Central European Agriculture, 2021
As the world's population increases every day, so does their need for food. Most of the world's population lives in urban centres away from food production sites.
Ana Poštek   +3 more
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Equalizing urban agriculture access in Glasgow: A spatial optimization approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2023
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, has long-term issues with inequalities in health and food security, as well as large areas of vacant and derelict land.
Amy Russell, Ziqi Li, Mingshu Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges and Strategies Among the Poor: Focus on Urban Agriculture in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Urban agriculture in South Africa historically has been labeled as an illegal activity. The problems caused by this labeling have been compounded by the traditional planning system in South Africa, which does not recognize urban agriculture as a part of ...
Hangwelani (Hope) Magidimisha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulatory and Other Barriers to Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture: A Case Study of Urban Planners and Urban Farmers from the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
Seven perceived barriers to urban and peri-urban agriculture in the greater Chicago metropolitan area are identified through interviews with urban planners and farmers.
Sheila R. Castillo   +5 more
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In This Issue: Frontiers in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraph: Introduction to Urban Agriculture The special topic focus of JAFSCD volume 1, issue 2, is urban and peri-urban agriculture. While urban and peri-urban agriculture are common and often traditional aspects of food systems in the Global ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Factors associated with urban and sub-urban communities in implementing urban agriculture: A case study in Central Java [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
The development of the agricultural sector often faced with various problems, one of which is the widespread land conversion that occurs in urban and suburban areas. One way to overcome the problem of decreasing land area is to develop urban agriculture.
Pranadita Natasya Erischa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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