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Urban and regional agriculture : building resilient food systems /

Urban and Regional Agriculture: Building Resilient Food Systems explores the sustainable integration of food provision, distribution and consumption through urban farms, agricultural systems, user communities and structural facilities designed to optimize food production and consumption.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Droege, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Academic Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Urban agriculture.
Sustainable agriculture.
Food supply.
Agriculture urbaine.
Agriculture durable.
Aliments > Approvisionnement.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
Food supply
Sustainable agriculture
Urban agriculture
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Urban and Regional Agriculture
  • Urban and Regional Agriculture: Building Resilient Food Systems
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • About the authors
  • Preface
  • 1
  • Farming for a stable climate
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CONTENT: FROM PARADIGMS TO SYSTEMS
  • Paradigms and policies
  • Cities and planning
  • Designing urban and regional agriculture
  • State of systems
  • CONTEXT: GARDEN, CITY, PARADISE
  • REFERENCES
  • 1
  • Paradigms and policies
  • 2
  • Community-based urban agriculture for food justice: a review
  • INTRODUCTION
  • BACKGROUND AND SETTINGS
  • Urban agriculture benefits for local communities
  • Defining and characterizing food justice movements
  • Food justice as a social justice movement in the Global North
  • Food justice versus food security and food sovereignty in the Global South
  • SETTING THE STAGE: URBAN AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY CAPACITY ASSESSMENT TO ACHIEVE FOOD JUSTICE
  • Urban agriculture contribution to community capacity building
  • Frameworks for assessing communities' capacities building
  • MAIN FOCUS: GROWING COMMUNITY CAPITALS THROUGH COMMUNITY GARDENS
  • Principles 1. To increase the health, education, and skills of the involved communities: human capital
  • Principle 2. To improve community initiatives, strengthen groups, and create networks: social capital
  • Principle 3. To promote sustainable ecosystems with multiple benefits-natural capital
  • Principle 4. to strengthen relationship and communication with local groups, organizations leadership, and government: poli ...
  • Principle 5. To promote diverse and healthy economies: economic capital
  • Principal 6. Culturing community development, neighborhoods, and space: cultural capital
  • SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK
  • REFERENCES
  • FURTHER READING
  • 3
  • The role of food policy councils in supporting urban agriculture: a scoping review
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF FOOD POLICY COUNCILS
  • SCOPING REVIEW ON THE ROLE OF FPCS IN SUPPORTING URBAN AGRICULTURE
  • Methods
  • Results
  • FINDINGS: THE ROLE OF FPCS IN SUPPORTING URBAN AGRICULTURE
  • Policies
  • Education
  • Markets
  • Land access and use
  • CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS
  • REFERENCES
  • FURTHER READING
  • 4
  • A city for all who eat: foodscape values for liveable cities
  • FOOD AT THE CENTER OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION
  • FOODSCAPES AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION
  • BUSINESS UNUSUAL
  • CULTIVATING FAIRER FOODWAYS
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 5
  • Urban-rural food system convergence as a vector for sustainable transformation
  • CHANGE-ENABLING URBAN-RURAL POLICY INITIATIVES
  • FOOD AND URBAN DESIGN
  • CITY REGION FOOD SYSTEMS: ENABLING RURAL-URBAN LINKAGES AS A PLATFORM FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE
  • Meat-the case for more nuanced urban food system understanding
  • What's next?
  • REFERENCES
  • FURTHER READING
  • 6
  • Cuba's agroecological revolution: implication for widespread adoption
  • PART 1
  • INTRODUCTION TO AGROECOLOGY AND CONTEXTUALIZING THE CUBAB CASE
  • Introduction
  • Why look at food production?
  • Introducing the Cuban context
  • Section 1: theoretical foundation of agroecology
  • Environmental consequences of industrial agriculture
  • Ecological impacts of intensive chemical use
  • Social implications of the industrial agriculture paradigm
  • The paradox of the Green Revolution
  • Precision agriculture as a potential sustainable path forward for agribusiness
  • Problematizing precision agriculture in the context of the Global South
  • Agroecology as a solution to the failings of industrial agriculture
  • Adaptive and mitigative potential of agroecology
  • Section 2: history of Cubab agriculture
  • Pre-Columbian period
  • Spanish colonial period
  • Postcolonial Cuba
  • Agriculture in Cuba under the Castro regime.
  • Early signs of failure in the intensive mode of production
  • Onset of the Special Period and its impacts
  • PART 2
  • A CHANGING AGRARIAN STRUCTURE
  • Section 3: research, education, and the spread of agroecology
  • Expansion of precollapse research
  • Changes in pedagogical approach to agricultural education
  • Shifting institutional structures
  • Peer-to-peer education systems
  • Section 4: land reform and the formation of agricultural cooperatives
  • Land reform and the breakup of state farms into UBPCs
  • Reorganization of remaining state farms into GENTs
  • Growth of the peasant sector and rejuvenation of CCSs and CPAs
  • Section 5: urban agricultural development
  • Emergence of urban agriculture as popular resistance
  • Economic growth of the urban agricultural sector
  • Urban demand and self-provisioning
  • Organizational structure of urban agriculture
  • Important agricultural subprograms
  • Production systems of urban agriculture
  • PART 3
  • ANALYSIS, CONCLUSION, AND MOVING FORWARD
  • Section 6: analysis and conclusion
  • Centralization and decentralization
  • Other critical factors to Cuba's success
  • Looking critically at Cuba as a whole
  • Afterword: where to go moving forward
  • REFERENCES
  • 2
  • Cities and planning
  • 7
  • From the Reformation to Garden Cities-a Danish perspective on the development of urban agriculture in Europe
  • THE REFORMATION AND RISE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE (16TH CENTURY)
  • The urban farmland of Copenhagen from 1536
  • Animals, crops, and governance of the urban farmland
  • UTOPIA AND THE CHRISTIAN VISIONS OF IDEAL WORK AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION (18TH CENTURY)
  • The French Huguenots at the free town of Fredericia, 1721
  • The Moravian Church at Christiansfeld 1772
  • THE ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD AND PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
  • The poverty gardens of 'Carl von Hessen' 1809.
  • UTOPIA AND THE SOCIALIST VISIONS OF IDEAL WORK AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION (MID-19TH CENTURY)
  • Company towns and workers gardens
  • The company town in Brede, 1833
  • THE GARDEN CITY OR GARDENS IN THE CITY? THE URBAN POOR AND SOCIAL REFORMS (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
  • Brumleby: the historic foundation for community housing in Denmark, 1853
  • THE ALLOTMENT GARDEN MOVEMENT OF 1884
  • Garden City 'Brønshøj' of 1921
  • CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 8
  • Nexus of urban gardening and social sustainability in European postsocialist cities
  • INTRODUCTION
  • EVOLUTION OF URBAN GARDENING IN EUROPE
  • URBAN GARDENING IN SOCIALIST EUROPE
  • THE CHANGE IN POSTSOCIALIST EUROPE
  • URBAN GARDENING AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
  • METHODOLOGY
  • URBAN GARDENING BETWEEN MOTIVATIONS, APPROACHES, AND PERCEIVED BENEFITS
  • Motives and approaches to urban gardening
  • Stakeholders involved in urban gardening
  • Perceived social benefits and the key factors for success
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 9
  • Access to and control over resources in urban agriculture in Tamale, Ghana
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Background
  • Setting
  • THEME
  • The land ownerships landscape in Tamale
  • Access and control over land
  • Access to water resource
  • Access to seed
  • Maintaining and controlling access to land
  • Maintaining and controlling access to water and seed
  • DISCUSSION
  • SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK
  • REFERENCES
  • 10
  • Intensive, informal, individual: Ankara urban farms
  • INTRODUCTION: AGRICULTURE AND THE CITY THROUGHOUT HISTORY
  • THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP OF HUMAN, LAND, AND PRODUCTION: KEY CONCEPTS AND ACTORS
  • HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: AGRICULTURE AND URBANIZATION IN ANKARA
  • 100 years of transformation of agriculture since 1923 onward to 2023
  • Today's Ankara and agriculture
  • CASES FROM ANKARA: INTENSIVE, INFORMAL, INDIVIDUAL.
  • Intensive: district of Beypazarı, farmers and firms from northwest
  • Informal: Imrahor Valley, farmers from the eastern fringe
  • Individual: Mirorganik-a family farm from north in district of Çubuk
  • FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS: POTENTIALS, PROBLEMS, OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, WEAKNESSES, AND STRENGTHS
  • SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK ON FINDINGS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • 11
  • The contribution of sustainable food system policies and initiatives for the Milan Metropolitan Area resilience∗
  • FOOD POLICIES CONTRIBUTION IN FACING URBAN CLIMATE CHALLENGES
  • Urban food policies and urban agriculture
  • Urban food policies and practices: characterizations and action domains
  • MILAN RURAL-METROPOLITAN AREA: ROOTS AND CHALLENGES
  • Rural roots of metropolitan system of Milan
  • Challenges, action domains, and contributions of food policies for Milan metropolitan sustainability
  • FOOD POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN MILAN
  • The Milan food policy
  • Urban and peri-urban agricultural production: agricultural district and the parco delle risaie initiative
  • The agricultural districts
  • The Parco delle risaie initiative
  • Research and innovation for sustainable food system
  • The OpenAgri project
  • MILAN 2030: INTEGRATING FOOD POLICIES IN LONG-TERM VISION FOR RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE MILAN
  • Milan 2030: the new municipal plan
  • Strategies for urban/peri-urban agriculture in the Milan 2030 vision
  • THE CONTRIBUTION OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN FOOD SYSTEM AND URBAN AGRICULTURE IN SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT
  • The complexity of practices vs. categorization of literature approaches
  • Multi-issue and integration among food policies and environmental challenges
  • Multilevel and multi stakeholder governance process
  • Governance process integrating food, urban agriculture, and climate policies.