Research & reports

Duan Yuan-gu · · China

This study analyzed community outdoor environment spaces, focusing on deficiencies in current community garden design. Drawing from traditional Chinese housing psychology, it summarized the necessity of community private spaces and proposed design techniques.

Qian Jing · 现代农业 · China (Beijing)

This article discusses the integration of urban agriculture, ecological tourism, and cultural creative industries as an inevitable trend for the upgrade of suburban industrial structures and the development of modern urban agriculture, citing Beijing as an example. It states that this integration holds significant economic, aesthetic, and ecological value, characterized by the unification of resources, industries, products, and functions. The article identifies the diversity of urban agricultural functions as a basic condition for integration, and the rapid upgrade of urban consumption levels as a prerequisite, suggesting that the government should promote this integration by creating favorable policy and market environments, and talent supply.

许光中 · 北京科技大学学报：社会科学版 · China (Qinghai Province)

This study examines urban agriculture in Qinghai Province, China, as a solution to urban ecological crises exacerbated by rapid urbanization. Urban agriculture, defined as modern agriculture integrating production, services, and consumption based on modern technology and diversified operations, can expand urban green spaces, improve urban ecology, and strengthen urban functions.

장동헌 · 산업경제연구 · South Korea

To identify policy implications for fostering urban agriculture in South Korea, a perception survey was conducted among experts. The findings indicated the need to establish a basic direction for urban agriculture, prepare legal and institutional frameworks for planned management and use of urban agricultural land, continuously promote related programs, establish an exchange system through network formation, and adopt a comprehensive approach to urban agriculture maintenance.

赵三志, 杨正强 · 中国农业银行武汉培训学院学报 · China

A report on how the Hubei branch of the Agricultural Development Bank of China supported urban agriculture development in Wuhan, China, by using credit as a leverage tool to cultivate pillar industries of agricultural industrialization, taking advantage of Wuhan's designation as a comprehensive pilot zone for a "resource-conserving, environmentally friendly society." It states the bank optimized its credit assets and customer structure, achieving a coordinated balance of speed, structure, quality, management and efficiency, but the abstract provides no specific quantitative data.

Zhao Shu-jie · Journal of Hebei Agricultural Sciences · China

A 2009 paper on coastal urban modern agriculture in Tianjin analyzes the essential conditions for its development and discusses basic approaches based on Tianjin's natural and economic characteristics. It proposes countermeasures spanning government support, coordination across sectors, improving farmers' overall competencies, and combining multiple development models, intended as a reference for coastal urban agriculture development.

Jing Liu · · China

A study of urban agriculture enterprises in China's Pearl River Delta (PRD) region built an evaluation index system for innovation capability across three dimensions: management innovation, technology innovation, and institutional innovation. A fuzzy AHP model was applied to assess enterprise innovation capability against the development conditions of urban agriculture.

XU Guang-zhong · Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing(Social Sciences Edition) · China

This article, using Qinghai Province as a case, argues that as urbanization accelerates and cities' ecological crises intensify, developing urban agriculture can help address this crisis. It describes urban agriculture as based on modern technology and reliant on agricultural industrialization, combining features of production, service and consumption, and states that promoting urban agriculture can expand green space, improve urban ecology, and strengthen urban functions.

Yun Li · Guangdong nongye kexue · China

This report describes the planning of a Modern Agro-ecological Park in Gaoming District, Foshan city, Guangdong province, China. The park is designed as a modern standardization zone for eco-agricultural production and demonstration, a resort zone for eco-agricultural tourism and leisure, a base for green food production, modern urban agriculture and export-oriented agriculture, a base for modern agricultural logistics and information, and a base for eco-agricultural popular science education and agricultural exhibitions (a two-zones, four-bases scheme). Based on the current state and future needs of agricultural development in Gaoming, the plan adopts a development model of a garden section, four subdivisions and one ecological protection belt, with a layout concept center comprising three counterpart units, aiming to build a comprehensive modern agriculture development area combining production and living, ecological protection, scientific research and development, tourism and recreation, culture and education, and information and logistics services. The park's stated goal is to drive the development of modern agriculture in Gaoming District and the wider Pearl River Delta region.

P. S. Datta, Shipra Tyagi · · India

Peri-urban agriculture in the Delhi-NCR area is highly dependent on groundwater availability amid rapid urbanization. This study integrates dynamic δ18O isotopic composition data on groundwater with static data such as elevation of recharge sites to delineate potential recharge zones and hydrodynamic aquifer zones. Significant δ18O-elevation relationships were found (r² = 0.808 to 0.982), with recharge-site elevation resolutions of about 20m in the northwest and 75m in the southwest, identifying potential recharge zones at elevations of 210-230m in the northwest and above 260m in the south. However, variation in groundwater isotopic composition over time indicates that the corresponding aquifers are relatively small and of low productivity, and points to the likely presence of many low-permeability zones in the northwestern recharge areas — a constraint on the groundwater resources that sustain peri-urban agriculture there.

Gayathri Devi, Stephanie Buechler · Practical Action Publishing eBooks · India

A book chapter (in Hovorka, de Zeeuw and Njenga, eds., "Women feeding cities: mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food security," Practical Action Publishing, 2009) addresses gender dimensions of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Hyderabad, India. The abstract provided is only the editorial citation, with no method or findings stated.

Abha Singh, Salahuddin Mohd. · National Geographical Journal of India · India

In-depth field research around the Iglas sewage pumping station on the Aligarh-Mathura road in Aligarh, India, surveyed 41 farming households and some consumers across five peri-urban villages — Bhojpura, Hari Narayan ki Sarai, Hajipur Chohata, Kheri Khwaja Buddha and Daurala Nirpal — that had used urban wastewater for irrigation for many years. Farmers and vegetable sellers reported suffering from ailments including diarrhoeal disease, typhoid fever, hookworm, amoebiasis and skin infections, yet their primary concern was securing enough water to sustain crop productivity and income, while consumers were more focused on getting a fresh, steady supply of vegetables than on the health risk.

Xiangyang Qin · Journal of Library and Information Sciences in Agriculture · China

Examines the science-and-technology-coordinator system first established in Beijing, China, to address a shortage of rural science and technology services. Based on an analysis of questionnaire responses, the authors describe the current situation and problems of the coordinator system and put forward suggestions for improving coordinators' quality. The abstract gives no sample size, response rate or quantified results.

Meng Qing-hu · Shanxi Architecture · China

This paper discussed the relationship between urban planning and public policy, illustrating the importance of establishing public policy. The establishment goals of public policy were generalized from human settlement environment construction, urban public space management, and the renovation of city villages and city farms, aiming to implement harmonious development of urban economic society and enhance people's living standards.

Dolly Kumar, Archana Mishra · · India (Vadodara)

This study conducted the first comprehensive survey of ant communities in Vadodara District, India, to assess diversity and species composition in urban and agricultural ecosystems. Using pitfall traps and hand collection, 22 ant species from 13 genera and five subfamilies were collected. Urban ecosystems contained 15 species from nine genera, while agricultural ecosystems had 16 species from ten genera, with species composition unique to each habitat and likely influenced by surrounding vegetation and biota.

Han Lu-yu · Chinese and Overseas Architecture · China

With the continuous promotion of social economy and living quality, the living behaviors of suburban residents are diversifying. Higher demands in spirit, culture, and leisure entertainment are driving the construction of more community gardens. Gangcheng Garden, a large new community garden in northern Gaoqiao Town, with its natural and comfortable landscaping environment and various leisure, cultural, and gymnastic facilities, has become a place for leisure, entertainment, neighborly communication, and refuge.

Fengrong Zhang · 资源科学 · China (Beijing)

Beijing faces water and land resource deficiencies while increasing its focus on environmental protection and ecological conservation. This paper proposes four agricultural development zones tailored to Beijing's urban spatial structure and socioeconomic development, aiming to leverage urban agriculture's sightseeing, landscape, and ecological functions. It notes that this spatial planning prioritizes public benefits over farmers' economic benefits, making market-based realization difficult and necessitating direct government subsidies to farmers.

Xi Chen · Guizhou nongye kexue · China (Guiyang)

This paper presents suggestions and countermeasures for accelerating urban agricultural development in Guiyang City, based on investigation information. It states that the rapid development of urban agriculture benefits the improvement of urban residents' quality of life, promotes rural economic development in the outskirts, and contributes to the construction of a new socialist country.

何晓萍 · 浙江人事 · China

This profile article introduces Sun Lixiang, director and Communist Party branch secretary of the Hangzhou Seed General Station in China, described as a senior extension researcher. He is credited with long-term work in the seed industry, introducing, screening, and promoting numerous new crop varieties, and contributing to agricultural industrial restructuring, increased agricultural output and income, and the development of urban and efficiency-oriented agriculture in Hangzhou. He is reported to have received 16 provincial and municipal science and technology progress awards, published 16 scientific papers in provincial-level or higher publications, contributed to four professional books, and received a special allowance from the Hangzhou municipal government.

丁婕 · 中国花卉园艺 · China

A news brief reports that Ningxia's first "farmer ecological park" was completed and opened to the public at the Taqiao flower garden zone in Xingqing district, Yinchuan city, China. Xingqing district is described as shifting its agricultural development model toward modern urban agriculture and urban-rural integration, positioning facility agriculture and the flower industry as the centerpiece of agricultural restructuring and a new source of farmer income.

Yang Zheng · Zhongguo shengtai nongye xuebao · China (Shanghai)

A text on Shanghai, China (2008) discusses the concept, characteristics, and scope of "urban modern fishery" as a component of urban agriculture and a foundation of Shanghai's ecologically sustainable development, analyzing the status and function of fishery within Shanghai's urban agriculture. It proposes that the structure of urban modern fishery in Shanghai incorporate three sectors: an economic sector covering ordinary aquaculture, specialty-species aquaculture, distant-water fishery, aquatic product manufacturing, and modern aquatic logistics; an ecological sector covering aquatic ecological industry and recreational fishery; and a knowledge-based sector covering hatchery fishery, fishery information industry, and fishery technology services.

김영, 김은자, 이상영, 이승주 · · South Korea

A South Korean study (2008) surveyed allotment (weekend farm) garden participants on their cultivation status and demand for herb crops, alongside interviews with garden plot proprietors, and reviewed program trends run by organizations serving allotment gardens. Participants cultivated roughly ten crop species on average, with seed and seedling purchases mainly dependent on the landowner and crop selection made jointly by spouses; 5.7% of participants were currently or had previously cultivated herbs, while 62% had not because they did not know how. Reported herb uses were medicine/beauty (22.0%), spices (22.0%), and enjoyment (29.0%), with future interest at 34.0%, 39.0%, and 31.7% respectively; 78.3% of participants said they had considered or would consider growing herbs if the landowner supplied plants, and expressed interest in guidance on planting, management, and post-harvest use. The study found that introducing new crops was more feasible among participants with more than four years of farming experience and relatively advanced cultivation skills, and concluded that crop and soil-management choices, seedling provisioning, education tailored to participants' skill levels, and rental arrangements were essential to sustaining and expanding allotment garden participation.

Zeng Fu-sheng · Zhongnan Linye Keji Daxue xuebao · China (Chang-Zhu-Tan)

This paper discusses the significant role of urban agriculture in the emergence of urban agglomeration and the mixture of city and countryside during China's rapid urbanization. It analyzes city agriculture using the example of the Chang-Zhu-Tan City Cluster, presenting a construction framework design for urban agriculture during urban agglomeration formation, and proposing relevant policies.

Hongxing Huang · Nongye xiandaihua yanjiu · China (Pearl River Delta)

This paper analyzed the current status of urban agriculture and urban agglomerations of the Pearl River Delta. It combined the functional location of urban agglomerations to conduct a preliminary study on the urban agriculture developmental orientation of the middle, east, and west of the Pearl River Delta.

이민수, 박덕병, 이응철 · 농어촌관광연구 · South Korea

An empirical study of 294 allotment garden users in South Korea revealed gaps between experienced and expected service quality levels. Functional quality appears to be a very important facet of perceived service, and the study concluded that governmental supports should concentrate on facilitating technical service quality, especially for toilets and cafeterias.