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Determinants of scale of farm operation in the eastern region of Ghana
BackgroundGhana’s smallholder share area under cultivation is witnessing a gradual decline, relative to the share of farmland under medium scale that...
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Urban Land Transition
Using land cover and land use data derived from satellite images over the past 30 years, this chapter examines the land transformation from 1990 to...
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Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China
ContextUrbanization has profoundly changed urban landscape patterns and morphologies. Understanding the spatiotemporal evolution of these changes and...
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Stakeholder’s practices for the sustainability assessment of professional urban agriculture reveal numerous original criteria and indicators
With the rapid growth of professional intra-urban agriculture (PIUA) projects in the Global North, sponsors, projects leaders, and experts develo**...
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Foraging in Urban India: Finding Food and Cure
Communities the world over have been foraging since time immemorial. More so in the global South. As cities developed so did urban foraging. In...
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Codification and Inclusivity of Landmark Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin
Madison and Dane County, Wisconsin, are known for progressive politics and early support for community gardening, urban agriculture, and agricultural...
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The Urgent Role of Urban Agriculture and Food Systems Planning in the Global South
What can US urban agriculture (UA) planners and scholars learn from the Global South? For many urban growers in low and middle income countries, UA...
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The ecological role and potential impact of an alien tree highly attractive to native nectar-feeding birds in urban areas
Alien plants may provide considerable benefits to biodiversity in urban areas while showing low to moderate risk of negative impacts. Here, we...
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How effectively might agricultural input subsidies improve nutrition? A case study of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP)
Agricultural input subsidy programmes (AISP) are often considered an important means of improving agricultural productivity and food security in...
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Characterising Urban Food Movements
This chapter introduces the reader to the world of urban food movements. It starts by outlining the key problems in food systems that contemporary...
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Recent Developments in Urban Agriculture
Over the last few decades, the world of urban agriculture has considerably changed and diversified, attracting the interest of researchers,...
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Wetland Conservation: Challenges Related to Water Law and Farm Policy
Water is essential for wetland function and sustaining migratory networks for wetland wildlife across broad landscapes. Groundwater declines and...
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Managing tree cover to restore farm productivity and build landscape and livelihood resilience in West Africa
Land restoration and sustainable natural resource use are critical societal concerns that impact both the health of ecosystems and human well-being....
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Primates in the Urban Mosaic: Terminology, Flexibility, and Management
Continuous human expansion is affecting landscape composition, in particular through urbanisation. Wildlife persistence in the urban mosaic is...
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Manure recycling from urban livestock farms for closing the urban–rural nutrient loops
Rapid urbanization in develo** countries is attracting urban livestock farming, which is associated with feed nutrient imports and manure nutrient...
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Hybridisation of Food Chains in Peri-urban Production Systems: The Example of Pisa in Italy
Peri-urban farms can react to urban pressure in different ways. Farmers can give up farming altogether and sell the land, profiting from high land...
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Ecosystem Service Flows Across the Rural-Urban Spectrum
Key differences exist between how rural and urban people receive benefits from nature (termed ecosystem services; ES). In rural areas, people are...
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Water quality, vegetation, and management of stormwater ponds draining three distinct urban land uses in central Florida
Stormwater ponds are prevalent engineered water features that are designed to mitigate the effects of urban land use on downstream water bodies....
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In Situ, Ex Situ and On Farm Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in Neotropics
The prospect for the coming decades will be for humanity to witness a holocaust of species on Earth. Within these species are plants for food...
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