The research explores urban farming in Amsterdam and Vancouver, focusing on sustainability, food security, and resilience. It highlights factors like urban density, space availability, and regulations. Amsterdam uses innovative spaces like rooftops, while Vancouver benefits from its layout and climate. …

Today, many cities in Europe have rediscovered urban and peri-urban agriculture (UA) as a contributor to a more healthy and sustainable urban environment. However, UA has not yet unfolded its potential due to gaps in knowledge, expertise, and advocacy. A clear typology is instrumental in identifying, …

These conference proceedings to the 10th annual conference of the AESOP Sustainable Food Planning group are organised as follows: the following four sections contain the short papers belonging to the four tracks that made up the conference (social inclusion; urban agriculture; urban planning, design …

Urban Agriculture (UA) is rapidly evolving and changing and often entails more than the production of food. EFUA’s Working Package 3 therefore aims to identify the types and benefits of UA in the European context. This report is an update of the typology as described in the COST Action UAE. As existing …

Urban Agriculture (UA) is a highly dynamic phenomenon, which is evolving constantly through space and time. Whilst previous typologies emphasised the distinctions between urban gardening and urban farming, the increasingly complex nature of the discipline has meant that these typologies no longer reflect …

Door te erkennen dat tuinieren voor veel mensen een belangrijke hobby is die rust, beweging en een gevoel van nut verschaft, kunnen we misschien afstappen van het idee dat het vergroenen van de openbare ruimte altijd meetbare voordelen moet opleveren, betoogt Esther Veen.

Low household dietary diversity is a persistent problem experienced by settled pastoralists households living in Turkana which is highly contributed by the persistent rate of food insecurity. A problem arises from households’ inability to access diverse food and nutritious diets due to insufficient food …

A growing group of cities feels responsible to feed urban populations sustainably. This has stimulated cities to embrace urban agriculture as an alternative in their food system orientation. However, while urban agriculture in all its diversity has arrived in the urban fabric and at planners’ desks, …

Fruit en landschap, dan denk je misschien aan de Betuwe, waar fruitteeltbedrijven zich aaneenrijgen. Van oudsher was het rivierenlandschap rijk aan fruit en noten, en dan vooral op de hogere gronden, dichtbij de dijk, zodat menig boerderij en dijkhuis weelderig door fruit- en notenbomen omringd was. …

In dit rapport wordt onderzocht wat er voor nodig is om boomgaarden in de openbare ruimte duurzaam door vrijwilligersgroepen te laten beheren. Met behulp van de place-keeping theorie zijn de inrichting, betrokkenheid, draagvlak, oogst, beheer, kennis, samenwerking, rol gemeente, budget en het vertrouwen …