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2. C.O.NXT survey shows pandemic has not shaken consumer interest in food sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Research summary
- Publication Date:
- 2021-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12179
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Update. 2 pages., Communications firm reports findings of an online survey of 750 consumers across the U.S.
3. Challenges to promote sustainability in urban agriculture models: a review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Vigne Bennedetti, Luiza (author), Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli, Paulo (author), Lamano Ferreira, Maurício (author), and Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-24
- Published:
- Netherlands: MDPI
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12839
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 20, Issue 3
- Notes:
- 14pgs, Urban agriculture (UA) can be used as an action to promote sustainability in cities and inform public health policies for urban populations. Despite this growing recognition, its implementation still presents challenges in countries in the Global North and Global South. Background: In this context, this systematic review aims to identify the development of frameworks for the implementation of UA as a sustainable action and its main opportunities and shortcomings in meeting urban socio-environmental demands. Methods: In this review, using the PRISMA protocol, we evaluated 26 studies on the interplay between UA and sustainability surveyed on the Web of Science to provide an overview of the state of the art. Conclusions: In summary, it was possible to identify many key challenges in UA adoption, which regard air and soil contamination, availability of green areas, layout of urban infrastructure, food distribution, among others. Due to numerous socio-economic and environmental contextual factors in cities, especially when comparing realities of the Global North and Global South, there is a need to develop a model that can be adaptable to these different contexts. Thus, it is recognized that the concept of sustainability does not present a universal understanding and that in its search it could be argued that one of the most important gaps is still to address social issues in relation to environmental ones.
4. Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dorr, Erica (author), Hawes, Jason K. (author), Goldstein, Benjamin (author), Fargue-Lelièvre, Agnèsa (author), Fox-Kämper, Runrid Cohen, (author), Specht, Kathrind (author), Fedeńczak, Konstancja (author), Caputo, Silvio (author), Cohen, Nevin (author), Poniży, Lidiae (author), Schoen, Victoria (author), Górecki, Tomaszi (author), Newell, Joshua P. (author), Jean-Soro, Liliane (author), and Grard, Baptiste (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-02-01
- Published:
- United States: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12838
- Journal Title:
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 17pgs, There is a lack of data on resources used and food produced at urban farms. This hampers attempts to quantify the environmental impacts of urban agriculture or craft policies for sustainable food production in cities. To address this gap, we used a citizen science approach to collect data from 72 urban agriculture sites, representing three types of spaces (urban farms, collective gardens, individual gardens), in five countries (France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, and United States). We answered three key questions about urban agriculture with this unprecedented dataset: (1) What are its land, water, nutrient, and energy demands? (2) How productive is it relative to conventional agriculture and across types of farms? and (3) What are its contributions to local biodiversity? We found that participant farms used dozens of inputs, most of which were organic (e.g., manure for fertilizers). Farms required on average 71.6 L of irrigation water, 5.5 L of compost, and 0.53 m2 of land per kilogram of harvested food. Irrigation was lower in individual gardens and higher in sites using drip irrigation. While extremely variable, yields at well-managed urban farms can exceed those of conventional counterparts. Although farm type did not predict yield, our cluster analysis demonstrated that individually managed leisure gardens had lower yields than other farms and gardens. Farms in our sample contributed significantly to local biodiversity, with an average of 20 different crops per farm not including ornamental plants. Aside from clarifying important trends in resource use at urban farms using a robust and open dataset, this study also raises numerous questions about how crop selection and growing practices influence the environmental impacts of growing food in cities. We conclude with a research agenda to tackle these and other pressing questions on resource use at urban farms.
5. Promoting biodiversity in food systems
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hawkins, Irana W. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA: CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10410
- Notes:
- 367 pages.
6. The importance of the public acceptance theory in determining the success of the vertical farming projects
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kalantari, Fatemeh (author), Tahir, Osman Mohd (author), Akbari Joni, Rahele (author), and Aminuldin, Nur Azemah (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10856
- Journal Title:
- Management Research and Practice
- Journal Title Details:
- 10(1) : 5-16
- Notes:
- Via UIUC online collection., "Existing empirical studies mostly focus on the construction technology or the agricultural technique of Vertical Farming. So far, no research addressed the factors contributing to the acceptance or rejection of Vertical Farming. ... A comprehensive literature reviewed on public acceptance of Vertical Farming in relation to the food security." ... "Public perception will be a key factor predicting the success of a project."