Research & reports

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

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• A STRATEGIC DISCUSSION ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN URBAN AGRICULTURE IN SHANGHAI

  2001

  LI Wei-jiang · Economic Geography · China (Shanghai)

  This paper provides a preliminary discussion on the strategic key points for constructing modern urban agriculture in Shanghai. It examines four aspects: body-function transformation, structure adjustment, development organization, and spatial structure composition.

  PolicyUrban–rural linkage
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• 发展都市农业 优化生存环境——兼谈对发展太原都市农业的认识

  2001

  王雪梅 · 山西农经 · China (Taiyuan)

  This paper discusses the "comprehensive urban diseases" resulting from urbanization, such as population concentration, traffic congestion, and environmental degradation, which threaten human health and well-being. It notes that as cities increasingly move away from nature, urban residents long for rural landscapes, prompting a call for green industries to return to cities. "Urban agriculture" has thus emerged in some large cities in China as a response to these challenges and a path towards sustainable urban development.

  Urban–rural linkageClimate changeCommunity
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• Supplying the City: The Role of Reservoirs

  1993

  Indian Urban Landscape · · India

  This study focuses on the diversity and complexity of agricultural production organization in urban landscapes of nonindustrial societies, specifically analyzing the role of reservoirs in the agricultural landscape around Vijayanagara, southern India. Vijayanagara's agricultural facilities and strategies were diverse in both form and scale, ranging from vast canal irrigation to small rain-fed plots. Reservoirs, as a single morphological type, crosscut traditional agricultural categories, indicating significant variability in productive organization and suggesting that ecological and organizational contexts, beyond facility typology, are crucial for understanding production.

  Urban–rural linkageFood sovereignty & justiceEconomics
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