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Microclimate and growth advantages in the ‘Three sisters’ planting food system in an urban garden
Background and aimsEfficiently and sustainably growing food requires that we understand the ecological effects that plants have on the environment...
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Responses of avian assemblages to spatiotemporal landscape dynamics in urban ecosystems
ContextUrbanization and its associated impacts on biodiversity are increasing globally. There is a need to enhance our understanding of species...
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Foraging and Consumption of Cerrado Biome Species in the Brasilia Alternative Urban Food System
Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, is considered a park-city, precisely because it is heavily wooded and has a large population of fruit trees—both...
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Prospects of Insect Farming for Food Security, Environmental Sustainability, and as an Alternative to Agrochemical Use
Insects are small animals that have three body regions, six segmented legs, two antennae, and two wings. They are very conspicuous in every ecosystem...
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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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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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Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?
Most food in sub-Saharan Africa is produced on small farms. Using large datasets from household surveys conducted across many countries, we find that...
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Linkages between plant functional diversity and soil-based ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban vacant lots
Initiatives to repurpose vacant lots to improve people’s well-being are increasing worldwide. Still, little is known about how distinct plant...
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Ramp (Allium tricoccum Ait.) weight differs across the harvest season: implications for wild plant stewardship and forest farming
A ramp or wild leek ( Allium tricoccum Ait.) is a perennial forest plant indigenous to mid-western and eastern North America. Throughout this range,...
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The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature
Problem, research strategy, and findings: We draw on a multidisciplinary body of research to consider how planning for urban agriculture can foster...
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Soil microbiomes in lawns reveal land-use legacy impacts on urban landscapes
Land-use change is highly dynamic globally and there is great uncertainty about the effects of land-use legacies on contemporary environmental...
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Urban agriculture in São Paulo: an analysis from the sociology of public action
How can one analyze the public actions of organizations and actors from different sectors? Studies using a policy analysis perspective have shed...
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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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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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The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders
ContextThe wildland-urban interface (WUI) is an area where houses are located near wildland vegetation. As such, the WUI is a focal area of wildfire...
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Morphological stability of rural populations supports their use as controls in urban ecology studies
The expansion of urban environments and how animals may be affected by them are being increasingly investigated, leading to a surge in urban ecology...
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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 springs are untouchable”: amid community management and government neglect, the last springs in peri-urban areas of Mexico City
In Latin America, conservation is a subject that cannot be understood outside of the social processes that determine the different conceptions, uses...
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The status of eucalypt products’ trade in western Gurage watersheds and its contribution to construction industry in rural areas and urban centers
A marketing channel is a marketing process that performs several functions by bridging the gap between production and consumption. The analysis of...
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Implications of wastewater discharges on environmental features and fish communities in an urban river
Wastewater effluent discharges from treatment plants (WTP) are among the most pervasive stressors in urban rivers, however, their impact on the...
