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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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The Socio-Cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture: A Review of the Literature [PDF]

, 2022
Despite extensive literature on the socio-cultural services of urban open spaces, the role of food-producing spaces has not received sufficient attention.
Agnès Fargue-Lelièvre, Caitlin K. Kirby, Kirby, Caitlin K., Fargue-Lelièvre, Agnès, Maggie Israel, Rositsa T. Ilieva, Specht, Kathrin, Fox-Kämper, Runrid, Victoria Schoen, Blythe, Chris, Ilieva, Rositsa T., Newell, Joshua P., Kirby, Caitlin, K, Newell, Joshua,, Israel, Maggie, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Lidia Poniży, Benjamin Goldstein, Schoen, Victoria, Caputo, Silvio, Ilieva, Rositsa,, Ponizy, Lidia, Kathrin Specht, Cohen, Nevin, Ilieva, Rositsa, T, Kirby, Caitlin,, Chris Blythe, Silvio Caputo, Nevin Cohen, Newell, Joshua, P, Joshua P. Newell, Goldstein, Benjamin   +31 more
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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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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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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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Social aspect of urban agriculture with examples from Croatia [PDF]

Journal 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, Ivica Kisić, Marija Cerjak, Luka Brezinščak   +3 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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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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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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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

Journal 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, Curtis R. Winkle, Stephen Krauss, Amalia Turkewitz, Cristina Silva, Edie S. Heinemann   +5 more
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