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The Effect of Urban Agriculture in Urban Sustainable Development and Its Techniques: A Case Study in Iran

Jamal Mohammadi, Soleimani Shiri Mortez

International Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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A study addressing how urbanization and rising living standards bring both destructive environmental impacts and pressure on resources needed for urban life—food, energy, materials—and examines global experiences with urban agriculture to propose strategies for developing urban agriculture in Iran that would address the growing urban population and its resulting problems while achieving sustainable development.