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Urban agriculture: a global analysis of the space constraint to meet urban vegetable demand

Martellozzo F., Landry J., Plouffe D., Seufert V., Rowhani P., Ramankutty N.

Environmental Research Letters

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A global analysis estimating that meeting urban dwellers' vegetable demand from within cities would require roughly one-third of total global urban area, demonstrating that space constraints make full urban self-provisioning unrealistic in many countries.