scholarly journals Thinking on Growing Urbanization, Sustainability and Food Supply: The Need of Urban Agriculture

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 361-370
Author(s):  
Florian C. Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply

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 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.

scholarly journals The Role of Urban Agriculture Approach in Food Supply and Export Ability (Case Study of Neishabour in Iran)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Mojtahedi ◽  
Katayoun Alizadeh ◽  
Hamid Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Total Effect ◽  
Food Needs

The study of the role of urban agriculture through structural equations shows that the total effect is 0.81 and in total urban agriculture can explain about 56% of the variance of role-playing and two variables of meeting food needs and export ability.

IOM Recommends Less Salt in Food Supply

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH MECHCATIE
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply
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