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Community-Based Urban Agriculture as a Strategy for Sustainable Food Security: Evidence of Yogyakarta, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences
Urban agriculture through a community-based approach will empower residents to transform underutilized space into productive food sources, thereby increasing the food security of households and the surrounding environment. This study examines the role of
Wulandari Retno   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Team 3: Communication Aspects in Urban and Sub-Urban Operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
from Scythe : Proceedings and Bulletin of the International Data Farming Community, Issue 1 Workshop 13This research seeks to evaluate the importance of reliability and delay times in a communication network.
Klaassen, B.   +3 more
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Citizen Behavior Model in Urban Farming Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
: Abstract— The study aims to investigate the characteristics of citizen behavior in the development of urban farming in the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi Province. The sample selection is using probability sampling of 300 respondents aged 18-60 years
Sapareng, Sukrimin   +7 more
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality labels as drivers of periurban livestock farming resilience

open access: yes, 2018
The purpose of this study is to analyse the contribution of local food certifications in maintaining and developing the farming system in periurban areas.
Filippini Rosalia   +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Farm as a System of Productive Urban Green – Challenges and Risks [PDF]

open access: yesArchitecture, Civil Engineering, Environment, 2018
Abstract The main topic of the paper is an analysis of the urban farm system phenomenon as the action taken in cities in order to develop a new form of productive green areas. The main goal of the work is to compare solutions implemented in European cities such as Paris, Barcelona or Vienna, with solutions developed in non-European ...
openaire   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating space for urban farming: the role of the planning professional

open access: yes, 2015
Urban farming projects often involve the (temporarily) redevelopment of urban space by local co-productions of citizens and/or entrepreneurs. To realize their ambitions these coalitions often need support of public (government) resources such as time ...
Levelt, Melika
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