Agriculture: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities: Using Wastes and Idle Land and Water Bodies as Resources

Smit, Jac; Nasr, Joe

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“…A household garden may cover 20 square meters or less. Urban agriculture can be defined as an industry that produces, processes, and markets food, fuel, and other outputs, largely in response to the daily demand of consumers within a town, city, or metropolis, on many types of privately and publicly held land and water bodies found throughout intra-urban and peri-urban areas (Smit et al 2001 ). In short, it is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas (Bailkey and Nasr 2000 ).…”

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Exploring the possibilities of creating shared value in Japan’s urban agriculture: using a mixed methods approach

2022

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The purpose of this research is to clarify the mechanism of creating shared value in Japan’s urban agriculture by focusing on the cognitive innovation of social entrepreneurship and urban residents’ cognition and behavior toward urban agriculture. Specifically, we introduce a mixed methods approach by integrating a multiple case-based qualitative exploration method for clarifying the cognitive innovation of social entrepreneurship and a quantitative sociological approach to the authors’ original questionnaire for analyzing the urban residents’ cognition toward urban agriculture. The following results are obtained from our empirical analysis. First, the results of latent class analysis clarified that diversified cognition and behavior toward urban agriculture are existing in urban residents. Second, the results of case analysis clarified that social entrepreneurs with radical cognitive innovation and gradual cognitive innovation are able to solve social problems and enhance competency through urban agriculture with stakeholders. However, social entrepreneurs fallen into social dilemma of cognitive innovation should pay more attention to organizational learning while involving residents in urban agriculture. Policy implication drawn from the above-mentioned results suggests that a system change may happen when urban agriculture in Japan becomes more familiar to general urban residents through collective social entrepreneurship.

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Exploring the possibilities of creating shared value in Japan’s urban agriculture: using a mixed methods approach

2022

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“…In this way, its maintenance prevents increases in food insecurity, unemployment and poverty (Dubbeling et al, 2010;FAO, 2007). Agricultural activity in these urbanised areas is not an option, but it is usually one of the only possibilities to survive and to access food and housing (Hamilton et al, 2014;Smit & Nasr, 1992).…”

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Conflict and oppositions in the development of peri‐urban agriculture: The case of the Greater São Paulo region

Torre

Fonseca

2022

Sociologia Ruralis

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One of the main factors preventing food production in urban and peri-urban areas is territorial opposition between different land uses. The aim of this article is to address the question of conflicts close to large urban centres, taking the example of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR), a representative urban area, which includes both food issues of the cities: the still important presence of subsistence agriculture that serves to feed the local people and the development of much-gentrified urban agriculture. Our study is based on expert interviews, an analysis of the regional daily press and a study of local information sites and blogs. First, we briefly depict peri-urban agriculture and its main characteristics, and we stress the importance of land-use occupation faced with competing uses. Then, we present our method of analysis and the main agricultural characteristics of the SPMR. The third part is devoted to a study of the local conflicts, their location, their link to agriculture and the consumption of agricultural soils and the typology of the opponents and supporters of this activity. Finally, we conclude with some lessons on the place of peri-urban agriculture drawn from this experiment.

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“…Moreover, many cities in the world facing food crisis, decrease green space and increase heat effects. In that case, urban agriculture is promoted as a possible solution to reduce the effect of this problems (Smit et al, 2001).…”

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Effect of Nitrogen On Growth and Yield of Chili (Capsicum annuum L.) in Roof Top Garden

Mahmud

Hossain

Mou

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Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of nitrogen on growth and yield of chili (Capsicum annuum L.) under rooftop conditions. The single factorial experiments were laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications. Four levels of nitrogen N0: 0 kg N ha-1, N1: 90 kg N ha-1, N2: 110 kg N ha-1 and N3: 130 kg N ha-1 were used in this experiment. Growth and yield contributing parameters significantly influenced by different doses of nitrogenous fertilizers. The dose of N2 gave the highest plant height (80.97 cm) and most of the morphological parameters increased with increasing nitrogen levels up to N2. The treatment N3 gave the highest fruit length (4.93 cm), yield of fruits plant-1 (165.33 gm), average fruit yield plot-1 (0.66 kg), individual fruit weight (1.97 g) and average fruit yield (5.533 kgha-1). Based on the present results, it can be suggested that use of 130 kg N ha-1 increased plant growth and fruit yield of chili in rooftop garden.

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Agriculture: Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities: Using Wastes and Idle Land and Water Bodies as Resources

Cited by 21 publications

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Exploring the possibilities of creating shared value in Japan’s urban agriculture: using a mixed methods approach

Exploring the possibilities of creating shared value in Japan’s urban agriculture: using a mixed methods approach

Conflict and oppositions in the development of peri‐urban agriculture: The case of the Greater São Paulo region

Effect of Nitrogen On Growth and Yield of Chili (Capsicum annuum L.) in Roof Top Garden

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