Research & reports

Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.

5 results

• Algorithmic Food Justice

  2023

  Lara Houston, Sara Heitlinger, Ruth Catlow, Alex Taylor · Policy Press eBooks · United Kingdom (London)

  Workshops critically experimented with the possibilities and challenges of blockchain as an infrastructure for food abundance and reparative work, using fictional scenarios set in a London transformed into a city farm by 2025. This experimentation suggested that blockchain presents challenges to such restorative and sustainable work. For participants, reparation involved working in the aftermath of social and environmental collapse to bring into being more-than-human-value systems that radically decentered human knowledge and experience.

  Governance failureFood sovereignty & justiceCommunityDigital agricultureClimate change
  Read source →DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781529239546.003.0025

• Evaluating the impacts of nutrients recovery from urine wastewater in Building-Integrated Agriculture. A test case study in Amsterdam

  2023

  Michele D’Ostuni, C. Stanghellini, A. Boedijn, Leonardo Zaffi, Giuseppina Pennisi, Francesco Orsini · Sustainable Cities and Society · Netherlands (Amsterdam)

  The feasibility of using urine and greywater streams as nutrient solutions in a theoretical model of Building-Integrated Agriculture in Amsterdam was evaluated. Results showed it is feasible to use urine and greywater as nutrient solutions; however, treated urine had higher macronutrient concentrations than literature fertilizer recipes, requiring dilution with increasing amounts of greywater to match N or P concentrations. Consequently, P deficiencies in plants or excessive N concentration were found in the final wastewater-based nutrient solution.

  Limited or null effectOrganic cycleDigital agriculture
  Read source →DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.104449

• SDG Implementation through Technology? Governing Food-Water-Technology Nexus Challenges in Urban Agriculture

  2021

  Sandra Schwindenhammer, Denise Gonglach · Politics and Governance · Germany

  This qualitative and participatory case study in Germany examined the governance implications of an emerging technology in urban agriculture that connects wastewater treatment and agricultural production for urban hydroponics. The analysis found that while this technology has the potential to facilitate SDG implementation, it simultaneously creates new sector interlinkages between water and food, leading to policy demands that necessitate more integrated policymaking.

  Governance failureDigital agriculturePolicyClimate changeFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i1.3590

• High-Tech Urban Agriculture in Amsterdam: An Actor Network Analysis

  2020

  Mosen Farhangi, Margherita Turvani, Arnold van der Valk, G.J. Carsjens · Sustainability · Netherlands (Amsterdam)

  An ethnographic study in Amsterdam, Netherlands, analyzed barriers to the integration of high-tech urban agriculture (HTUA) into urban planning processes. The research revealed a lacking connection between planning actors and HTUA technology developers.

  Governance failurePolicyDigital agriculture
  Read source →DOI: 10.3390/su12103955

• Microclimates of Urban Reproduction: The Limits of Automating Environmental Control

  2019

  Andy Lockhart, Simon Marvin · Antipode · United Kingdom (Sheffield)

  This article explored the phenomenon of automated environmental control, using three sites in Sheffield, UK: a botanical glasshouse, a luxury hotel, and a university plant growth research lab. The study identified technical and ecological tensions and limits of indoor environmental control at each site, which restrict the scope of automation. It also showed that maintaining desired conditions required considerable hidden labor and energy.

  Limited or null effectDigital agricultureClimate change
  Read source →DOI: 10.1111/anti.12566