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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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Improvement model framework of urban agriculture program among urban garden community in Malaysia: PLS-SEM analysis [PDF]

, 2023
The Malaysian government has introduced the Urban Agriculture Program to improve the performance of urban and rural agriculture in Malaysia. The Urban Agriculture Program was implemented by the Department of Agriculture (DOA), Malaysia in 2010.
Yee, Siaw Shin, T Abu Bakar, Tengku Halimatun Sa’adiah, Ismail, Ismi Arif, Man, Norsida, Yusuf, Munifah Siti Amira, Abu Bakar, Tengku Halimatun Sa’adiah T, Mohamed Haris, Nur Bahiah, Haris, Nur Bahiah Mohamed   +7 more
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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: 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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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 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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Sustainability Assessment of Urban Agriculture [PDF]

, 2020
This chapter engages with the existing literature on urban agriculture and with concrete case studies to examine current challenges and ways forward for the sustainability assessment of urban agriculture. The chapter identifies current conceptualizations
Feola, Guiseppe, Binder, Claudia R., Feola, G., Zundritsch, Patricia, Feola, Giuseppe, Sahakian, M, Sahakian, Marlyne   +6 more
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Diversity of Pharmaceuticals Enhances Antibiotic Resistance in the Invertebrate Gut via Biofilm‐Mediated Mechanisms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pharmaceutical diversity acts as an independent driver of antibiotic resistance in soil invertebrates. While bulk soil remains unaffected, the collembolan gut microbiome exhibits significant resistance gene enrichment under complex chemical exposure and diurnal warming.
Yi‐Fei Wang, Ya‐Ning Wang, Da Lin, Jia‐Yang Xu, Feng‐Yuan Qi, Hui‐Ling Cui, Hui‐Jie Lu, Min Qiao, Edward Topp, Dong Zhu, Matthias C. Rillig, Yong‐Guan Zhu   +11 more
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang, Yadong Yang, Yongsheng Wang, Guirui Yu   +3 more
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