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. It also involves the processing and distribution of a diversity of foods and nonfood products, using large amounts of human and material resources, products, and services found in and around those areas. City dwellers in developing countries commonly use urban agriculture as a livelihood strategy to generate food and income, while those in developed countries may engage in gardening more for recreation. However, these goals are not mutually exclusive, and people engage in urban agriculture for a wide variety of reasons. No current and reliable estimates of the number of people participating in urban agriculture exist; however, Smit et al. (1996) roughly estimated the number to be about 800 million.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2014
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English
Keywords
tree crop, aquaculture, foods, livelihood
