Quantification of the food-water-energy nexus in urban green and blue infrastructure: A synthesis of the literature

F Meng, Q Yuan, RA Bellezoni, JAP de Oliveira… - Resources …, 2023 - Elsevier
Green and blue infrastructure (GBI) is an innovative strategy to tackle food-water-energy
(FWE) nexus issues. GBI can provide the benefits of food production, energy saving and …

Promoting urban farming for creating sustainable cities in Nepal

K Bhattarai, AP Adhikari - Urban Science, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper responds to the research question,“can urban farming in Nepal help create
sustainable cities?” Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring the contribution of urban agriculture to urban sustainability: an indicator-based framework

C Tapia, L Randall, S Wang, LA Borges - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
In an increasingly urbanized world, urban agriculture and community gardening are
promoted as lever for sustainable urban development. Urban agriculture contributes to food …

Edible urbanism 5.0

A Russo, GT Cirella - Palgrave communications, 2019 - nature.com
Urban and peri-urban agriculture can have negative effects (ie, ecosystem disservices) to
the city ecosystem. In the last two decades, urbanists and landscape planners have …

Planning urban community gardens strategically through multicriteria decision analysis

JP Smith, S Meerow, BL Turner II - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture is widely promoted as a strategy to advance sustainability goals. Urban
community gardens serve as multifunctional green infrastructure, providing an array of social …

[PDF][PDF] Urban agroecology: designing biodiverse, productive and resilient city farms

MA Altieri, CI Nicholls - Agro Sur, 2018 - academia.edu
La agricultura urbana (AU) ha surgido como una importante alternativa sostenible para
mejorar la seguridad alimentaria en un planeta urbanizado. Si bien se ha estimado que la …

An assessment of discriminatory factors contributing to gender inequality among farmers participating in urban agriculture in Southeast Nigeria

CC Olumba, JO Alimba - SN Social Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Much of the existing literature on gender and urban agriculture (UA) has provided a
descriptive account of the different circumstances of men and women farmers participating in …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of cultivated and wild plant pollination in urban agroecosystems

H Nguyen, JM Schmack, M Egerer - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2023 - Elsevier
Pollination is a vital ecosystem service in urban agriculture. Yet the environmental drivers of
both crop and wild plant pollination in urban agroecosystems are still not well understood …

Agroecología urbana: diseño de granjas urbanas ricas en biodiversidad, productivas y resilientes

MA Altieri, CI Nicholls - Agro Sur, 2018 - 146.83.217.169
La agricultura urbana (AU) ha surgido como una importante alternativa sostenible para
mejorar la seguridad alimentaria en un planeta urbanizado. Si bien se ha estimado que la …

Environmental Sustainability and Food Safety of the Practice of Urban Agriculture in Great Bandung.

S Sunardi, I Ghulam, N Istiqomah… - International …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
Urban farming activities is markedly increasing with expectation to strengthen the food
security in the cities, however, the crop safety and the environmental sustainability of farming …