Part of urban agriculture
Continuous with productive green zones and urban farmland
Citizen-driven farms are continuous with productive green zones, urban farmland and municipal policy. Situating them within institutional and planning contexts strengthens their durability and public value.
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Cases where this shows up
Seoul Rooftop Box Farms
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture promoted as policy by the City of Seoul, with box-shaped plots on rooftops and building gaps where residents grow vegetables together; the city and districts subsidize most setup costs and run classes that foster community.
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Nerima Ward Agricultural Experience Farms
JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Nerima created Japan's first agricultural experience farm in 1996 and is a pioneer of urban agriculture. The 'Nerima model', in which farmers act as instructors for residents, has spread nationwide, with over a dozen farms still operating in the ward. It is a leading model for using urban farmland as a place of learning and community exchange.
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Daegu School Garden & Urban Agriculture Program
KRDaegu, South Korea
Daegu's urban-agriculture support program centred on school gardens. The city subsidises school gardens at 45 schools plus box, rooftop and balcony gardens and senior healing gardens, advancing food education and cross-generational citizen participation.
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Edogawa Komatsuna Urban Farming and School Lunches
JPTokyo (Edogawa), Japan
In Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, said to be the birthplace of komatsuna greens, urban farmers grow the heritage crop on plots dotted through residential neighborhoods and deliver directly to 92 schools, passing local food culture and urban agriculture to children via synchronized school lunches and harvest events.
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Rosario Urban Agriculture Program (Parques Huerta)
ARRosario, Argentina
Rosario's municipal urban agriculture program, launched in 2002 in response to the economic crisis. A 2004 ordinance institutionalized the 'Parque Huerta' (garden park), turning vacant land into public spaces for agroecological food production.
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AgroCité — R-Urban (Colombes / Gennevilliers)
FRGennevilliers, France
The flagship example of the R-Urban strategy, turning vacant suburban land near Paris into citizen-run agro-cultural hubs. AgroCité, combining urban agriculture, recycling and low-energy building, was born in Colombes, dismantled in 2017 to make way for a car park, and rebuilt in Gennevilliers after a residents' campaign. It is internationally known as a model of the urban commons.
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Supporting research
都市農業をめぐる情勢について
A Ministry of Agriculture briefing on the current state and policy trends of urban agriculture. It summarises trends in urban farmland area, productive/specified-productive green space, measures under the Urban Agriculture Promotion Act, and initiatives toward diverse functions such as citizen farms, experience farms and agriculture-welfare collaboration — a baseline reference for municipalities designing urban-agriculture policy.
農林水産省 農村振興局農村計画課都市農業室 · 2021 · 農林水産省（都市農地活用支援センター セミナー資料）
生産緑地地区の買い取りによる都市農地の保全・継承に関する研究
Addressing urban farmland repositioned from 'land to be converted to housing' to 'land that should exist' under the 2015 Urban Agriculture Promotion Plan, the study examines how municipalities should strategically position productive green areas and operate the purchase-request system to preserve them, using Setagaya Ward—an early adopter of such purchases—as a case study.
Nakajima Y., Akita N. · 2023 · 都市計画論文集 58(3):767-773
Planning the urban foodscape: policy and regulation of urban agriculture in Aotearoa New Zealand
Examining the four largest New Zealand cities, this paper reveals a significant policy vacuum for urban agriculture, with restrictive zoning, inadequate recognition of Māori food practices, and a failure to accommodate emerging urban food-growing forms, calling for targeted municipal policy reform.
Hanna C., Wallace P. · 2022 · Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 313–335
A drop in the bucket: examining practice and policy for water resilient urban agriculture and urban food system resilience
This mixed-methods case study of the water-scarce San Francisco East Bay maps 91 urban agriculture sites, interviews 34 stakeholders, and analyzes regional plans to examine water management and urban agriculture's resilience potential. It finds growers were the main water managers while municipalities and utilities were minimally involved, that land access shaped water access, and that institutional support to stabilize long-term land and water access is needed for greater water and food-system resilience.
Kristida Chhour, Maya Carrasquillo · 2025 · Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems