Urban agriculture : a new dimension of agribusiness
Jéssica Moreira Maia Souto
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
Urban Farm DB summary
A Brazilian thesis aims to trace the evolution and worldwide spread of urban agriculture (AU), build a framework for identifying its forms, and present a local case from southern Brazil. The interdisciplinary, exploratory, qualitative study combines a PRISMA-protocol systematic review with a multi-case study in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region. It finds that AU can take multiple formats depending on the domain, people and interests involved, and that in the municipality of Porto Alegre certain categories are more used than others because of local support schemes. Part of the studied initiatives were initially community-centered but transformed over time into businesses seeking new market opportunities. The AU-related terms found in the literature were summarized into a framework linking them to their sub-levels.