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Determinants of sustainability in urban and peri-urban agriculture

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Increase resource use efficiency based on process- oriented research on the functioning of (peri-) urban agriculture, matter flux es, product contamination and negative externalities • Typology and classification based on satellite images and a (socio-economic) baseline-survey in six cities • Measurement of matter flux es (C, N, P, K balances) • Environmental effects and product quality

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