Small-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 ArticlePlanning for Urban Agriculture in Canadian Cities
As issues regarding food security have become more prevalent in the developed world, the popularity of methods to combat these issues, such as urban agriculture (UA), have risen. As a result, municipal...
View ArticleToronto Municipal Staff and Policy-makers’ Views on Urban Agriculture and Health
Municipal governments across the Global North are increasingly becoming key actors in shaping urban food and agriculture policy. In the City of Toronto, recent aspirational policies, such as the...
View Article“It’s hard to be strategic when your hair is on fire”: alternative food...
Despite decades of struggle against the industrial food system, academics still question the impact of the alternative food movement. We consider what food movement leaders themselves say about their...
View ArticleBottom-Up and Top-Down approches for urban agriculture
Urban Agriculture, developed in several forms according to different contexts, is a trend that is acquiring strength as it responds to the common need of a sustainable city in terms of environmental,...
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Cartographie des jardins individuels dans la ville de Montréal-Ouest
En collaboration avec plusieurs partenaires, le Laboratoire sur l’agriculture urbaine (AULAB) travaille sur un projet d’évaluation de l’agriculture urbaine comme infrastructure verte de résilience...
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Jardin pédagogiques : pourquoi sont-ils si importants ?
Synthèse bibliographique [1] de Éric Duchemin, avec la collaboration de Stéphanie Therriault , Karine Lévesque et Martine David Le mouvement des jardins pédagogiques prend de plus en plus d’ampleur...
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Les serres urbaines sur toit : une évaluation environnementale et économique
Les serres sur toit sont une avenue envisagée par de nombreux producteurs urbains ou que veulent favoriser certains gouvernements ou promoteurs immobiliers. Cette production bien que nécessitant un...
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Estimation des services écosytémiques rendus par l’agriculture urbaine
L’évaluation de la valeur de l’agriculture urbaine, qu’elle soit citoyenne ou encore commerciale, est l’un des enjeux scientifiques actuels. Nicholas Clinton, du Arizona State University, et ses...
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Apports économiques des producteurs urbains à Vancouver
Vancouver Urban Farming Society (VUFS) vient de publier son enquête 2014-2016 sur le développement des fermes urbaines sur le territoire de la ville de Vancouver (Canada)[1]. Cette enquête fait un...
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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)...
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,...
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 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 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 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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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