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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.