In recent years, urban agriculture (UA) projects have bloomed throughout the world, finding
large applications also in the developed economies of the so-called Global North. As …

Multifunctionality of urban agriculture can support the resolve of many urban challenges.
Therefore, it is vital to understand the contribution of academic studies on urban agriculture …

Urban green spaces, like community gardens, received increased attention during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from an ethnographic study on participating in community …

Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been
increasingly connecting the commons and social movements empirically, giving shape to a …

Cities, which now host the majority of the global population, are vulnerable to environmental
and socio-economic disturbances, which are likely to increase in number and severity in the …

Over the last decades, urban agriculture (UA) and controlled environmental agriculture
(CEA) have been growing in many urban areas of the world to supply fresh food locally and …

In this paper, we aim to explore how community gardening can embed and foment
grassroots resistance to the privatization of urban space in the current configuration of a …

Climate change is impacting the ecological, social and technological aspects of urban
gardens. Gardens experience threats (eg, water scarcity) but are also responding through …

This paper presents a vegetal political ecology of weeds. Weeds have barely been analysed
in the burgeoning field of 'more-than-human'scholarship, this despite their ubiquity and …

Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is one of the most interesting phenomena of land
management and transformation in recent decades. Thanks to its multiple functions, it can …