scholarly journals Low-carbon food supply: the ecological geography of Cuban urban agriculture and agroecological theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustav Cederlöf
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Low Carbon

Mechanisms of Green Development of Urban Agricultural Production in a Large Industrial City

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 823-829
Author(s):  
E. V. Malysh
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Green Development

A city’s potential for food self-sufficiency is expected to increase through the distribution of innovative, high-tech, green agricultural practices of producing food in an urban environment, which can improve the city’s food security due to increased food accessibility in terms of quantity and quality. Aim. Based on the systematization of theoretical approaches and analysis of institutional aspects, the study aims to propose ways to strengthen the city’s food security by improving food supply in urban areas, increasing the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of urban food systems, and changing the diet of urban residents.Tasks. The authors propose methods for the development of urban agricultural production in a large industrial city based on the principles of green economy and outline the range of strategic urban activities aimed at implementing green agricultural production technologies associated with the formation and development of the culture of modern urban agricultural production.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition to examine the specificity of objectives of strengthening a city’s food security by improving the quality of food supply to the population. Methods of comparison, systems analysis, systematization of information, and the monographic method are also applied.Results. A strategic project for the development of urban agricultural systems through the implementation and green development of advanced urban agricultural technologies is described. Green development mechanisms will create conditions for the city’s self-sufficiency in terms of organic and safe products, functioning of short supply chains, and green urban agriculture.Conclusions. Managing the growth of urban agriculture will promote the use of highly effective, easily controlled, resource-efficient, eco-friendly, weather- and season-independent, multi-format urban agricultural technologies. The study describes actions aimed at creating conditions for stabilizing a city’s high-quality food self-sufficiency with allowance for the growing differentiation of citizen needs.

scholarly journals Testing the environmental performance of urban agriculture as a food supply in northern climates

2016 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 984-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Goldstein ◽  
Michael Hauschild ◽  
John Fernández ◽  
Morten Birkved
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Environmental Performance

Urban agriculture could provide 15% of food supply to Sydney, Australia, under expanded land use scenarios

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 104554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mcdougall ◽  
Romina Rader ◽  
Paul Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Land Use Scenarios ◽  
Sydney Australia

scholarly journals Urban agriculture may change food consumption towards low carbon diets

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 100507
Author(s):  
Ivanka Puigdueta ◽  
Eduardo Aguilera ◽  
José Luis Cruz ◽  
Ana Iglesias ◽  
Alberto Sanz-Cobena
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Low Carbon

scholarly journals Food for Thought: Addressing Urban Food Security Risks through Urban Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1267
Author(s):  
Jorinda Steenkamp ◽  
Elizelle Juanee Cilliers ◽  
Sarel Stephanus Cilliers ◽  
Louis Lategan
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Potential Method ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Urban Food Security ◽  
Food Supply Chains

Food and nutrition security has been neglected in the planning field for reasons of a lack of connection between food and planning and the perception that agricultural activities have no place in the modernizing world. However, considering increasing climate change impacts and implications on industrialized agriculture, there is a clear need to establish shorter, more sustainable agricultural production practices and food supply chains. Urban agriculture is proposed as a potential method of intervention for planners to support sustainable food production and supply chains. The paper utilized a multiple-case study design to analyze four best practice examples of urban agriculture in the Global South to uncover its potential to address food security associated risks and contribute to sustainable development objectives. The results delivered evidence of the potential to harness the multifunctionality of urban agriculture to not only improve the food security of the most at-risk populations, but to also address other urban risks such as unemployment, community decline and food deserts. The recommendations for this paper relate to establishing a food security department, mapping and encouraging more sustainable food supply chains, creating land uses and zonings specific to urban agriculture and to utilize its multifunctionality to address other urban risks.

Urban Agriculture as Low-Carbon Strategy for Cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 6925-6931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Long Zhao ◽  
Chang An Liu ◽  
Yu Kun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Low Carbon City

Integrating agriculture into urban environment and architectural space, which connects with production, life and ecological systems, will be an integrative strategy for low-carbon city and architecture. This acts as an alternative and even better which amends some missing links of the existing low-carbon strategy. This essay analyzes the necessity and possibility of developing urban agriculture for low-carbon cities and explores low-carbon architectural project, so as to discuss further in the possibility of integrating urban agriculture into cities and buildings.

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