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Urban agriculture: A strategic pathway to building resilience and ensuring sustainable food security in cities

Farming System
Urban agriculture is gaining global recognition as a strategic approach to promising creating sustainable and reliable food sources, enhancing food security and resilience in cities.
Ruwanthika Gunapala, Ruchira Gangahagedara, W.C.S. Wanasinghe, Anjalika U. Samaraweera, Ashoka Gamage, Chamila Rathnayaka, Zammil Hameed, Zaher Abdel Baki, Terrence Madhujith, Othmane Merah   +9 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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Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States [PDF]

This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are ...

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A drop in the bucket: examining practice and policy for water resilient urban agriculture and urban food system resilience

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of disasters that disrupt supply chains and threaten urban food supplies. Urban agriculture can make urban food systems resilient to such threats by localizing food production and recycling urban ...
Kristida Chhour, Maya Carrasquillo
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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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Research Progress and Key Scientific Issues Impacting Urban Agriculture Functional Transformation for Urban-Rural Integration

Redai dili
Under the auspices of the national strategies for urban-rural integration and rural revitalization, a focus on the functional evolution and spatial reorganization mechanisms of urban agriculture is of great theoretical and practical significance.
Yang Ren, Lin Yuancheng
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The Role of Urban Agriculture and Local Authorities in Protecting Agricultural Land in Metropolitan Cities

Megaron, 2016
With the intertwining of rural and urban areas, new concepts have emerged about rural areas and agricultural production. New approaches have been created to restructure agricultural production and define agriculture as an urban activity. With the help of
Sevinç Bahar Yenigül
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Electrochemical Pathways for Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia: From Environmental Challenges to Ammonia Economy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective presents recent advances in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction, focusing on reaction mechanisms, catalyst design, and electrolyzer configurations. Key challenges in selectivity, stability, and practical wastewater treatment are highlighted, while future directions for advancing sustainable ammonia synthesis and nitrate remediation are ...
Xintong Li, Yunpeng Zuo, Xiaoran Zhang, Jieqiong Shan, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Bin Liu, Peter Strasser, Adrian Fisher, Zonglong Zhu, Xin Wang   +9 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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A Global Methane Observation System to Reduce Uncertainty for Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks for Detecting and Attributing Climate Feedbacks

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais, S. Peng, J. Chang, F. Li, Q. Zhu, K. Yuan, G. Hugelius, H. Li, Y. Cai, F. Chevallier, K. Tibrewal, E. A. Kort, K. Arndt, J. Watts, B. Buma, N. Besic, P. I. Palmer, H. Cadillo‐Quiroz, E. Euskirchen, M. J. Gondwe, A. Hoyt, R. Jackson, S. Malone, D. Monteverde, S. Natali, M. Ramonet, C. Rey‐Sanchez, L. B. Sagang, E. A. G. Schuur, R. Vargas, R. Varner, Z. Zhang, B. Poulter   +32 more
wiley   +1 more source