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Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture [PDF]

, 2014
Modern agriculture, in seeking to maximize yields to meet growing global food demand, has caused loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and compaction, impairing critical regulating and supporting ecosystem services upon which humans also depend.
Edmondson, J.L, Gaston, K.J, Edmondson, Jill L., Gaston, Kevin J., Davies, Zoe G., Leake, J.R, Leake, Jonathan R., Davies, Z.G   +7 more
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Equalizing urban agriculture access in Glasgow: A spatial optimization approach

International 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
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What is urban agriculture?

EDIS, 2023
This publication discusses the definition of urban agriculture, common characteristics, the types of food produced, commonly used production methods, and the purposes of various types of operations. Written by Alicia Papanek, Catherine G.
Alicia Papanek, Catherine G. Campbell, Hannah Wooten   +2 more
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Urban agriculture and Anopheles habitats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2009
A cross-sectional survey of agricultural areas, combined with routinely monitored mosquito larval information, was conducted in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to investigate how agricultural and geographical features may influence the presence of ...
Castro, M. C., Dickson Nyika, Marcia C. Castro, Tanner, M., Castro, Marcia C., Drescher, Axel W, Drescher, Axel W., Gosoniu, L., Dongus, S., Khadija Kannady, Marcel Tanner, Hassan Mshinda, Killeen, Gerry, Dongus, Stefan, Laura Gosoniu, Nyika, Dickson, Castro, Marcia C, Killeen, Gerry F, Killeen, G. F., Ulrike Fillinger, Gosoniu, Laura, Mshinda, Hassan, Tanner, Marcel, Axel W. Drescher, Deo Mtasiwa, Kannady, Khadija, Mtasiwa, Deo, Drescher, A. W., Gerry F. Killeen, Fillinger, Ulrike, Mtasiwa, D., Fillinger, U., Nyika, D., Kannady, K., Killeen, Gerry F., Mshinda, H., Stefan Dongus   +36 more
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Challenges and Strategies Among the Poor: Focus on Urban Agriculture in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa

Journal 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, Lovemore Chipungu, Rosemary Awuorh-Hayangah   +2 more
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Global Trends in Urban Agriculture Research: A Pathway toward Urban Resilience and Sustainability

Land, 2022
Urban agriculture has been proposed as an important urban element to deal with the challenges of food insecurity and environmental deterioration.
Dan Yan, Litao Liu, Xiaojie Liu, Ming Zhang   +3 more
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Urban Agriculture and its Sustainability Implications on the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

EDIS, 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, Hui Zhao, Lorna Bravo, Jessica Ryals   +3 more
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In This Issue: Frontiers in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

Journal 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]

E3S 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, Antriyandarti Ernoiz, Rahayu Wiwit   +2 more
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Urban agriculture and policy: mitigating urban negative externalities

, 2022
Agriculture and urban agglomerations can be combined in different perspectives, including building-integrated food production. Indeed, urban agriculture is less concerned with helping urban communities achieve food self-sufficiency and more concerned ...
Ramli, Nurul Nadia, V. D., Nirusha Ayoni, Abdul Hadi, Ahmad Hanis Izani, Shamsudin, Mad Nasir   +3 more
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