Enhancing Post-Disaster Food Security Through Urban Agriculture in the...
Results of this research indicate that potential productive land is primarily evenly distributed in the eastern part within the city boundary, accounting for 0.3% to 1.5% of the total area. Vegetable...
View ArticleDéploiement de projets d’agriculture urbaine dans les quartiers prioritaires...
Lancé en 2020 par l’Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine (ANRU), le dispositif Quartiers fertiles vise à revitaliser les quartiers prioritaires via l’agriculture urbaine. L’objectif de cet...
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Rapport sur les parcs agricoles et agriurbains : un maillage entre deux modes...
Le Laboratoire sur l’agriculture urbaine vient de mettre en ligne un rapport sur les parcs agricoles et les parcs agriurbains. Un mouvement en émergence depuis quelques années, mais qui a des racines...
View ArticleEst-ce que l’agriculture urbaine sera verticale et hors-sol ? Étude sur...
L’agriculture en environnement contrôlé (AEC) se développe de plus en plus dans les villes à travers le monde. Toutefois, alors que ses promoteurs vantent ses bénéfices environnementaux et en matière...
View ArticlePlanification urbaine favorisant la protection de la production agricole à...
En Amérique Latine, il existe un manque d’orientation en termes de stratégies de planification pour intégrer l’agriculture urbaine dans les plans d’aménagement. Torres-Lima et al., (2010) ont effectué...
View ArticleDifferences in motivations and social impacts across urban agriculture types:...
Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular approach to addressing negative social and health effects of cities. Social benefits of urban agriculture include improved health and wellbeing, economic...
View ArticleSmall-scale urban agriculture results in high yields but requires judicious...
Growing food in cities for human consumption could be one means of increasing global food supply in the face of rising population growth and global food security concerns. While previous studies have...
View ArticleConsiderations for reducing food system energy demand while scaling up urban...
There is an increasing global interest in scaling up urban agriculture (UA) in its various forms, from private gardens to sophisticated commercial operations. Much of this interest is in the spirit of...
View ArticleCarrefour installe des potagers autour de ses hypermarchés
Carrefour a inauguré jeudi dernier un potager sur le toit de son hypermarché de Villiers-en-Bière en Seine-et-Marne, le plus grand de France en superficie. Sur une surface de 1200 mètres carrés, des...
View ArticlePsychosocial outcomes as motivations for urban gardening: A cross-cultural...
The range of benefits provided by urban greenspaces is reasonably well understood and a broad consensus has been reached that they provide habitats along with social ecosystem services, such as...
View ArticleThe Motivation of Urban Gardens in Mountain Areas. The Case of South Tyrol
Urban gardens have attracted considerable academic attention in recent years. Several studies have, in fact, emphasized their positive contribution in terms of social integration, community health,...
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Les entreprises agricoles urbaines au Québec : impact et potentiel économiques
Le Carrefour de recherche, d’expertise et de transfert en agriculture urbaine du Québec (CRETAU) vient de publier une étude sur les entreprises agricoles urbaines au Québec qui évalue leur impact et...
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L’apport alimentaire de l’agriculture urbaine sociale aux villes en temps de...
La situation actuelle entourant le COVID-19 montre que le système de distribution alimentaire au Québec est relativement résilient. Il semble pouvoir faire face à des crises sanitaires comme...
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The contribution of urban agriculture to cities in times of crisis: the case...
We know that urban agriculture, in the form of community, collective and home gardens, plays an important role during times of crisis. As with the explosion of victory gardens during the Second World...
View ArticlePolitics of scale in urban agriculture governance: A transatlantic comparison...
Local food systems are increasingly receiving political support across the globe. As part of this trend, food policy councils (FPCs) are generally considered to be ideal governance platforms in the...
View ArticleFood waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics...
The contradictions between food poverty affecting a large section of the global population and the everyday wastage of food, particularly in high income countries, have raised significant academic and...
View ArticleA Global Geospatial Ecosystem Services Estimate of Urban Agriculture
Though urban agriculture (UA), defined here as growing of crops in cities, is increasing in popularity and importance globally, little is known about the aggregate benefits of such natural capital in...
View ArticleCultivating (a) Sustainability Capital: Urban Agriculture, Ecogentrification,...
Urban agriculture (UA), for many activists and scholars, plays a prominent role in food justice struggles in cities throughout the Global North, a site of conflict between use and exchange values and...
View ArticleVegetable Output and Cost Savings of Community Gardens in San Jose, California.
Results indicate that community garden practices are more similar to biointensive high-production farming, producing 0.75 lb vegetables/sq ft, rather than conventional agricultural practices,...
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Freins et opportunités pour l’accès aux espaces pour la production...
Ce rapport fait était d’un projet de recherche mené par le Carrefour de recherche, d’expertise et de transfert en agriculture urbaine du Québec (CRETAU) entre 2016 et 2018. Il visait à (1)...
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