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Urban agriculture refers to various practices of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in urban areas. [1] [2] The term also applies to the area activities of animal husbandry, aquaculture, beekeeping, and horticulture in an urban context.
Urban agriculture refers to agricultural practices in urban areas and their surrounding regions (peri-urban), and is a centralized operation involving horticulture, animal husbandry, aquaculture, and other practices for producing fresh food or other agricultural products.
Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) can be defined as practices that yield food and other outputs through agricultural production and related processes (transformation, distribution, marketing, recycling…), taking place on land and other spaces within cities and surrounding regions.
Urban agriculture includes the cultivation, processing, and distribution of agricultural products (food or non-food) in urban and suburban areas. Urban farming can provide environmental, economic, and social benefits to the surrounding communities.
1 Ιαν 2020 · The FAO has defined urban agriculture as “the growing of plants and the raising of animals for food and other uses within and around cities and towns, and related activities such as the production and delivery of inputs, processing and marketing of products.”
1 Ιαν 2019 · Urban agriculture is defined as the production of food and nonfood items through cultivation of plants, tree crop, aquaculture, and animal husbandry within urban and peri-urban areas.
1 Νοε 2022 · For urban agriculture, the limited space for cultivating crops can be addressed by developing plants with compact architecture and rapid life cycle (O'Sullivan et al., 2020).
