- Title
- Grand challenges in urban agriculture: ecological and social approaches to transformative sustainability
- Creator
- Zimmerer, Karl S, Bell, Martha G, Chirisa, Innocent, Duvall, Chris S, Egerer, Monika, Hung, Po-Yi, Lerner, Amy M, Shackleton, Charlie M, Ward, James D, Ochoa, Carolina Y
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/402287
- Identifier
- vital:69838
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.668561"
- Description
- This synopsis of the Grand Challenges of Urban Agriculture (UA) is framed by the urgent need to understand and strengthen the expanding yet highly diverse roles of UA amid rapid global urbanization, failures of predominant food systems, and crises in systems of physical and mental health. More than half of humanity lives in cities today and by 2030 this is projected to grow to 60.4 percent, ∼5 billion people (UN Habitat, 2020). More than 90 percent of urban demographic increase is anticipated to take place in the developing world. Ecological and social dimensions of UA are situated in these expanding spaces of cities, towns, and villages (along with their urban fringe or peri-urban areas), and among their diverse populations. UA is further situated in the powerful, far-reaching influences of urbanization processes that occur within and beyond these spaces. UA is thus integral to the prospect of Urban Sustainability as SDG 11 (“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”) of the U.N.’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (8 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Zimmerer, K.S., Bell, M.G., Chirisa, I., Duvall, C.S., Egerer, M., Hung, P.Y., Lerner, A.M., Shackleton, C., Ward, J.D. and Yacamán Ochoa, C., 2021. Grand challenges in urban agriculture: ecological and social approaches to transformative sustainability. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, p.668561, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems volume 5 p. 668561 2021 2571-581X
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- Rights
- Open Access
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