[HTML][HTML] Promoting urban agriculture and its opportunities and challenges—a global review

CG Wadumestrige Dona, G Mohan, K Fukushi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

A systematic review of urban agriculture and food security impacts in low-income countries

MN Poulsen, PR McNab, ML Clayton, RA Neff - Food Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
With increasing global urbanization and environmental threats, ensuring food security for
poor city residents is a critical challenge. An ongoing debate is whether urban agriculture …

[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 …

Modelling the impact of urban growth on agriculture and natural land in Italy to 2030

F Martellozzo, F Amato, B Murgante, KC Clarke - Applied Geography, 2018 - Elsevier
The uncontrolled spread of towns and cities into their surrounding rural and natural land,
and the consequent increasing demand for new natural resources are among the most …

Environment for development

S Farming - 1992 - JSTOR
With ongoing climate change, food insecurity is likely to become more widespread in most
small-holder and subsistence farm households in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the …

Assessing gender inequality in food security among small-holder farm households in urban and rural South Africa

B Tibesigwa, M Visser - World development, 2016 - Elsevier
With the ongoing changes in climate, household food insecurity is likely to be more
widespread in most small-holder and subsistence farm households in sub-Saharan Africa …

Multifunctionality assessment of urban agriculture in Bei**g City, China

J Peng, Z Liu, Y Liu, X Hu, A Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
As an important approach to the realization of agricultural sustainable development,
multifunctionality has become a hot spot in the field of urban agriculture. Taking 13 …

Africa: On the rise, but to where?

F Obeng-Odoom - Forum for social economics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Africa's hitherto negative image is now being rapidly replaced by a new persona:'Africa on
the rise'. Developed mainly from Africa's growth experience, this re-imaging of Africa has …

[HTML][HTML] What does it take to renature cities? An expert-based analysis of barriers and strategies for the implementation of nature-based solutions

JAC Castellar, LA Popartan, B Pucher… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper uses an expert-based methodology to survey the barriers and strategies related
to the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS). The ambition of the paper is to offer …

Impacts on the urban environment: Land cover change trajectories and landscape fragmentation in post-war Western Area, Sierra Leone

SP Gbanie, AL Griffin, A Thornton - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
An influential underlying driver of human-induced landscape change is civil war and other
forms of conflict that cause human displacement. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) …