Facilitating resilient rural-to-urban sustainable agriculture and rural communities

Urban Farm DB summary

This conceptual article works to validate a common set of parameters and principles for sustainable agriculture, comparing alternative forms of sustainable agriculture with rural-to-urban community resilience and drawing conclusions across multiple sustainable/alternative agriculture systems. It proposes organic agriculture parameters and principles as a conceptual framework and examines best-management parameters of urban and rural sustainable agriculture in the United States and United Kingdom. The article states that urban agriculture is expanding alongside rising demand for fresh, accessible produce, and that evidence supports a symbiotic relationship between sustainable agriculture and rural/urban communities, while also noting that some hold this relationship has not been clearly defined.