Trends and gaps in scholarly literature on urban and peri-urban agriculture

Graefe, Sophie; Buerkert, Andreas; Schlecht, Eva

doi:10.1007/s10705-019-10018-z

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“…The soil properties of community gardens, for instance, can be linked to neighborhood socio-demographic characteristics (Egerer et al, 2018). Other examples illustrate how UA typically hinges on multi-scale spatial flows of water, nutrient, and biotic resources (such as pollinators), as well as broadly defined social factors, knowledge, management, and policy Lin et al, 2015;Langellotto et al, 2018;Graefe et al, 2019). These landscape flows are being found to correspond to spaces or scales both within and across urban areas as well-traversing periurban and urban-rural interfaces (Soulard et al, 2018).…”

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Grand Challenges in Urban Agriculture: Ecological and Social Approaches to Transformative Sustainability

Zimmerer

Bell

Chirisa

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Section: Understand and Support Connected Ua Ecological And Social Multi-functionalitymentioning

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Grand Challenges in Urban Agriculture: Ecological and Social Approaches to Transformative Sustainability

Zimmerer

Bell

Chirisa

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…1), and they may also foster the conservation of plant biodiversity and pollinator functions (Bernholt et al 2009). Also reported are provision of jobs and income opportunities for (poor) producers and street vendors across value chains, recycling of water and organic waste, and coverage of free space with urban green (Graefe et al 2019). Nevertheless, a major problem of UPA are lacking legal frameworks for this mode of production including tenure rights for the producers (Cabannes 2012).…”

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Rural–urban transformation: a key challenge of the 21st century

Buerkert

Schlecht

2019

Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst

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The global challenge of rural-urban transformationDuring the last two decades the benefits, risks, negative externalities, and future social-ecological challenges of urban and (peri-) urban agriculture (UPA) have received increasing attention (Lydecker and Drechsel 2010;Safi and Buerkert 2011;Drechsel and Keraita 2014;Thebo et al. 2014). A main cause for this attention is the growing awareness of rapid ruralurban transformation processes that are changing matter flows, resource allocation, and ecosystem functioning as a consequence of strong shifts in the distribution of people along the rural-urban gradient (Cumming et al. 2014;Angel et al. 2005). It has been estimated that by 2050 the share of the global urban population may reach 68% compared with 55% today (United Nations 2017). Given continuing population growth, this phenomenon, in absolute numbers, entails

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“…The multifunctionality of agriculture is the additional function of agriculture other than food and fiber production [6], which has been widely used by sustainable agricultural research and policymaking [7]. Therefore, there is a growing body of academic literature on urban agriculture and urban sustainability [8].…”

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Promoting Urban Agriculture and Its Opportunities and Challenges—A Global Review

2021

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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 practices as scientific information. The present study followed a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA method. Finally, 54 identified articles were analyzed. The review study mainly examined the contribution of academic literature on urban agriculture under four dimensions: the socio-economic context of the country, type of agriculture model, opportunities, and challenges. The results revealed the focus of academic literature on urban agriculture to show favoritism toward developed countries’ community gardens. Moreover, the leading academic focus on this discipline identifies multifunctionality. People’s motivations in developed countries tend to favor social, health-related, and educational benefits of urban agriculture; however, in developing countries, urban agriculture is more related to economic and ecological needs. Challenges for urban agriculture are also different among developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, existing academic studies have given comparatively less attention to identifying challenges, benefit groups of urban agriculture, and government support. Since urban agriculture is highly reliant on local factors, studying more about opportunities and challenges for urban agriculture under different socio-economic contexts and different agriculture models could be more beneficial to connect farming practices in cities with urban planning. Therefore, to make an adequate academic contribution to urban sustainability, future urban agriculture studies need to be more holistic.

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Trends and gaps in scholarly literature on urban and peri-urban agriculture

Cited by 46 publications

References 76 publications

Grand Challenges in Urban Agriculture: Ecological and Social Approaches to Transformative Sustainability

Grand Challenges in Urban Agriculture: Ecological and Social Approaches to Transformative Sustainability

Rural–urban transformation: a key challenge of the 21st century

Promoting Urban Agriculture and Its Opportunities and Challenges—A Global Review

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