Database research record2024·Global
Defining impacts of urban farming beyond catchy headlines
Francesco Orsini, Giuseppina Pennisi, Giorgio Gianquinto, Michael Martin
International Journal of Vegetable Science
Urban Farm DB summary
This paper argues that widely publicized figures on urban agriculture's environmental impacts lack the methodologically sound evidence needed for valid comparison, before conclusions can be drawn. It addresses problems in comparatively assessing environmental performance between rural and urban farming and argues for the need for specifically designed indicators capable of comprehensively assessing multifunctional urban agriculture.