scholarly journals IDENTIFICATION OF STRATEGIES FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT: A SWOT ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pushpawani Ramaloo ◽  
Chamhuri Siwar ◽  
Choon Yeun Liong ◽  
Anizan Isahak
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Financial Infrastructure ◽  
Agriculture Development

Population growth is the major reason for increased food demands and countries face difficult challenges in ensuring food security. This study was conducted to investigate the prospects of urban agriculture (UA) development in Penang state, Malaysia, from the experts’ perspective, particularly on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Fifty-seven Penang state stakeholders were interviewed. This study applied qualitative analysis method using SWOT analysis to identify and prioritize strategies for urban agricultural development in order to assist planners to manage urban agriculture for achieving food security in urban areas. Based on the results of the SWOT analysis, strategic plans for urban agriculture development system were prioritized into legal framework, financial, infrastructure, land, water, environment and health, social, marketing, and research and development aspects. Finally, a number of strategies for sustainable development of urban agriculture were outlined in order to reduce the weaknesses, avoid the threats, improve the strengths, and grasp the opportunities for the development of urban agriculture production in the Penang state.

FACTORS AFFECTING URBAN AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIET NAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-233
Author(s):  
Vu Bach Diep ◽  
Dinh Hong Linh ◽  
Bui Thi Minh Hang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Infrastructure Policy ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Agriculture Development

The process of urbanization is taking place fast and vigorously in large urban and peri-urban areas in Vietnam. According to national forecasts, the rate of urbanization nationwide will reach 39.3% by 2020 and 50-55% by 2035. Thai Nguyen is a province in the midland and mountainous region. The province is located at the northern gateway and bordered with Hanoi capital. In recent years, the agricultural land area of Thai Nguyen province has narrowed due to the urban-industrial development. Urban agriculture development is an inevitable direction, creating safe and high quality food products, protecting the ecological environment, and increasing people's income. Thai Nguyen is one of the provinces promoting sustainable urban agricultural development. Secondary and primary data sources are analyzed and synthesized by descriptive statistical methods. The article will analyze five groups of factors affecting urban agricultural development in Thai Nguyen province in the period 2015-2018, including Socio-economic; Natural conditions and infrastructure; Policy factors; Planning factors; Links and integration.

Philosophical, ecological and technical challenges for expanding ecological sanitation into urban areas

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 225-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A Esray
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Conventional Treatment ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Ecological Sanitation

Ecological sanitation seems often to be taken to mean no more than an alternative toilet, whereas it should be understood more broadly as embodying a closed-loop approach to the management of human excreta. In the next 25 years the urban population of Africa and Asia is expected to double. By facilitating the revival of urban agriculture and avoiding the adverse environmental impacts of conventional treatment strategies, ecological sanitation can play a major role in providing food security and public health in a sustainable future.

scholarly journals Urban Agriculture: Search for Agricultural Practice in Urbanized Rural Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1461
Author(s):  
Celile Özçiçek Dölekoğlu ◽  
Sema Gün
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Rapid urbanization in developing countries involves unplanned migration, unemployment and poverty. The steady shrinking of rural areas and the use of agricultural land for other purposes are progressively increasing the pressure on natural resources. This development on the one hand increases the risk to food security, and on the other triggers climate change. The rural population who migrate to the cities or who are absorbed into urban areas continue their agricultural activities in the urban in order to provide themselves with an income or to maintain their food security. In the big cities of the developed world, contact with nature is kept by means of hobby gardens, recreational areas and urban and suburban plant and animal farming, and creative ideas such as roof gardens can be found. This development, known as urban agriculture, is practiced by 800 million people in the world. Urban agriculture has many economic, social and environmental benefits, but it may also have risks and adverse effects. In this study, the developments in this area in Turkey and the world are presented, and all aspects of its effects and outcomes are discussed.

scholarly journals Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Food Security and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: The Case of Mestre

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5999
Author(s):  
Giulia Lucertini ◽  
Gianmarco Di Giustino
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Impact Reduction ◽  
Change Mitigation

Urban and peri-urban areas are subject to major societal challenges, like food security, climate change, biodiversity, resource efficiency, land management, social cohesion, and economic growth. In that context, Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA), thanks to its multifunctionality, could have a high value in providing social, economic, and environmental co-benefits. UPA is an emerging field of research and production that aims to improve food security and climate change impact reduction, improving urban resilience and sustainability. In this paper, a replicable GIS-based approach was used to localize and quantify available areas for agriculture, including both flat rooftop and ground-level areas in the mainland of the city of Venice (Italy). Then, possible horticultural yield production was estimated considering common UPA yield value and average Italian consumption. Climate change mitigation, like CO2 reduction and sequestration, and climate change adaptation, like Urban Flooding and Urban Heat Island reduction, due to the new UPA areas’ development were estimated. Despite the urban density, the identified areas have the potential to produce enough vegetables for the residents and improve climate change mitigation and adaptation, if transformed into agricultural areas. Finally, the paper concludes with a reflection on the co-benefits of UPA multifunctionality, and with some policy suggestions.

scholarly journals Strategi Agricultural-Demand-Led-Industrialization dalam Perspektif Peningkatan Kinerja Ekonomi dan Pendapatan Petani

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Sri Hery Susilowati
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Agriculture Development ◽  
Agricultural Demand

<strong>English</strong><br />The new paradigm of agricultural development placed Agricultural-Demand-Led-Industrialization (ADLI) strategy as an industrialization strategy emphasizing agriculture development program and setting the agriculture sector as a prime mover of industry and other sectors. The strategy is considered appropriate to be applied in developing countries which agriculture sector is their main resource. This paper aims to analyze the role of ADLI strategy in developing countries, including Indonesia, on macroeconomic performance and on farmers and land less households’ income improvement. The main result of this study is that ADLI strategy has an important role on macroeconomic performance, especially on labor absorption, GDP improvement as well as on other sector’s income acceleration. However, the strategy is quite a distance from an ideal implementation in terms of household income distribution. The benefit gained from agriculture and agroindustry sector development was mostly pour to non agriculture households in urban areas while farmer’s households and especially those of landless gained  the least.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Indonesian</strong><br />Paradigma baru pembangunan pertanian menempatkan strategi Agricultural-Demand-Led- Industrialization (ADLI) sebagai strategi industrialisasi yang menitikberatkan program pembangunan di sektor pertanian dan menjadikan sektor pertanian sebagai penggerak pembangunan sektor industri dan sektor-sektor lain.  Strategi pembangunan ini dipandang sesuai diterapkan di negara-negara berkembang yang memiliki sumberdaya utama di sektor pertanian.  Makalah ini bertujuan untuk menelaah peran strategi ADLI yang telah diterapkan di negara-negara berkembang termasuk Indonesia dalam meningkatkan kinerja ekonomi makro dan meningkatkan pendapatan rumah tangga petani dan buruh tani. Kesimpulan pokok dari kajian ini adalah bahwa strategi ADLI berperan  baik khususnya dalam  penyerapan tenaga kerja, peningkatan PDB dan perannya dalam mengakselerasi pertumbuhan sektor-sektor lain.  Namun dalam hal distribusi pendapatan rumah tangga, strategi ADLI masih jauh dari penerapan yang ideal. Manfaat pengembangan sektor pertanian primer dan agroindustri lebih banyak mengalir ke rumah tangga nonpertanian di kota, sedangkan buruh tani dan petani menerima pendapatan terkecil.

scholarly journals Evaluating urban agriculture program effectiveness using CIPP model: a review

2021 ◽  
Vol 306 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
Munifah Siti Amira Yusuf ◽  
Norsida Man ◽  
Nur Bahiah Mohamed Haris ◽  
Ismi Arif Ismail ◽  
Amar Maruf
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Slow Development ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

The art of planting, preparing, and distributing food around urban areas is known as urban agriculture, farming, or gardening. Individuals and organizations generally work in urban agriculture for general purposes: 1) enhancing their own health and economic circumstances; 2) improving their communities’ access to nutritious food; 3) enhancing their community wellbeing; and 4) developing a community and ecosystem. The Urban Agriculture Program (UAP) has been set up by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) Malaysia since 2014 to facilitate and transfer information regarding urban farming practices to the community. However, the program was less effective and had a low success rate due to the local community's minimal participation, slow development, and sustainability of the agriculture community gardens. This article primarily examines the UAP implementation based on the four components of the CIPP Evaluation Model: Context, Input, Process, and Product. The UAP is a sustainable development tool that can provide food or related services within or on the edges of urban areas. Malaysia addresses food security by providing urban dwellers with adequate nutritious, safe, acceptable, and cost-effective food. Therefore, the study is relevant as achieving food security and nutrition that has been set in the urban agriculture program outcome by 2025.

scholarly journals Development of Precission Farming Hydropoonic Model Based On Internet of Things Using Arduino

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 1946-1955
Author(s):  
Budi Tjahjono ◽  
Kundang Karsono ◽  
Lista Meria
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Water Temperature ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Hydroponic System ◽  
And Control

Agricultural land in urban areas was needed for community food security. Narrow agricultural land posed obstacles in the implementation of urban agriculture. Hydroponi is a solution for agricultureal development on narrow land. Precesion farming was needed to maintain plant growth. Hydroponic system required regulation of air and water temperature, humidity, water level, pH, water nutrient. This study used SDLC methodology. The result of this research is an automatic hydroponic implementation that can monitor and control an Internet of Things based hydroponic system using Arduino.

scholarly journals Urban Agriculture Development : A Strategy to Support Food Security

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juniawati Juniawati ◽  
Maulida Hayuningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Agricultural Technology ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Food Stock ◽  
Rooftop Garden ◽  
Agriculture Development

The enhancement of rural-urban migration flows impacts on the enhancement of urban population. It takes more efforts to fulfill the food demand. Now, 80% food stock in urban area is fulfilled from rural area and imports. Urban agriculture development is a strategy to improve food availability, food access and also to support food security. Some of urban agriculture models that have implemented and developed in many country were metropolitan food cluster, rooftop garden, community garden, and vertical farming. This paper is a literature review from various study, research and document relates with urban agriculture. Based on this study, urban agriculture can increase urban community prosperity, environmental sustainability and quality of health. Urban agriculture productivity needs agricultural technology innovation to ensure sustainability of production. Urban agricultural models that is integrated with agricultural technology innovation able to create a resilient urban food systems to accelerate the realization of food security. Keywords: urban agriculture; technological innovaton; food security

scholarly journals An Analysis Study of Paddy Cultivation in Sivagangai District – A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
R Nageswari ◽  
R Maya Murugan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
The World ◽  
Agricultural Surplus ◽  
Log Linear

Agricultural development is a precondition for the overall economic development of a country. India occupies sixth rank in the world in terms of agricultural development. India stands in the second rank in the production of rice next to china. The share of Indian agriculture is 2.4 percent in the world. Rapid growth in agriculture is essential not only to achieve self-reliance but also for the food security of the household. The agricultural sector through its product contribution, factor contribution, and market contribution might act as the leading sector for economic development. Economist Arthur Lewis thinks that agricultural surplus is used by the secondary and tertiary sectors for their expansion for maintaining food security and at the same time mobilizing a large agricultural surplus for the urban areas is much needed for agricultural development.  This paper is mostly focussed on the Log- Linear Regression model of Cob Douglas type and it is adopted to estimate the vital factor which determines the yield. A Yield is for two farm size that is small and large farmers in the regression model, yield is considered as a dependent variable and input factor of the following analyses.

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