Urban Agriculture: A Strategic Pathway to Building Resilience and Ensuring Sustainable Food Security in Cities

Farming System, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100150 - 100150

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Can trait matching inform the design of pollinator‐friendly urban green spaces? A review and synthesis of the literature

Ecosphere, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Abstract Land use change is a major driver of pollinator decline and loss pollination services. For plant interactions to persist in rapidly changing urban systems, co‐occurring species must share matching traits, including phenological, morphological, physiological traits. Thus, the knowledge trait among interacting plants pollinators can aid design habitats enhance conservation value green spaces, but this remains relatively understudied. Here, we review how facilitates persistence creation new plant–pollinator networks. We highlight four drivers facilitating restructuring networks through gain areas. also show different pathways by which traits affected urbanization. Furthermore, functional help predict novel environments, those exotic species. Finally, application management practices, sustainable spaces that will accommodate functionally diverse within matrix.

Language: Английский

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Optimizing the co-benefits of biodiversity and carbon sinks in urban residential yards

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: April 29, 2024

Urban green infrastructure is recognized for its potential to combat biodiversity loss and enhance carbon sequestration in cities. While residential yards constitute a significant part of urban infrastructure, their role providing ecosystem services remains largely understated. There lack systematic measures effectively implementing vegetation services. The aim this study investigate how different types typically found apartment blocks can biodiversity, these benefits be supported through landscape design. encompasses an integrative literature review qualitative analysis. Drawing from previous research, identifies the drivers that indicate either sink or enhancement types. are then cross-examined identify qualities potentially strengthen carbon–biodiversity co-benefits. As key findings we present versatile co-benefits sinks within summarize them three main categories: plant diversity, provision good growing conditions maintenance. stresses several only achieved selection prioritization solutions during planning design process. To exemplify this, demonstrate incorporated into management yards. We conclude actions addressed future (i) establishing diverse planting areas with mixture woody herbaceous plants encourage species richness complexity, (ii) optimizing use space growth conditions, and, (iii) maintenance practices consider both aspects. highlights enhancing carbon-biodiversity significantly contribute major environmental challenges provide vital built environments.

Language: Английский

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Women’s Leadership in Sustainable Agriculture: Preserving Traditional Knowledge Through Home Gardens in Santa Maria Jacatepec, Oaxaca

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(21), P. 9513 - 9513

Published: Oct. 31, 2024

Rural communities in Oaxaca face challenges such as food insecurity, economic instability, and the loss of traditional agricultural knowledge. Home gardens, once essential for production income generation, have declined due to migration, environmental degradation, modern pressures. This study evaluated how community-driven models, supported by crowdfunding, can revitalize home gardens improve security, build community resilience, promote empowerment. A mixed-methods approach, including household surveys, interviews, focus groups, was used assess impact these gardens. The results showed that over 70% households experienced improved security reduced reliance on external sources. garden also led a 20% reduction expenses, sale surplus crops provided additional income, enhancing stability. Women’s involvement decision-making increased, fostering empowerment within both family contexts. Traditional practices, seed saving organic pest control, were maintained, contributing ecological sustainability Crowdfunding an effective tool financing boosting engagement strengthening social bonds. findings highlight potential integrating knowledge with funding strategies create resilient, sustainable systems rural Oaxaca.

Language: Английский

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The case for Urban Agriculture: Opportunities for sustainable development

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 128861 - 128861

Published: May 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Home food gardening in modern cities: advances, issues, and future perspectives

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: May 30, 2024

Against the backdrop of unexpected COVID-19 epidemic, governments are facing significant challenges in mobilizing food resources, particularly fresh products. It is inevitable that there will be intermittent shortages during pandemic. As a result, home gardening has gained considerable attention from city residents and policymakers modern cities. This due to its potential provide humanitarian emergencies lockdown. Moreover, increasingly becoming popular recreational activity many countries, offering therapeutic benefits such as fostering social bonds through knowledge-sharing fruit-sharing, improving mental psychological well-being, promoting outdoor physical exercise, strengthening connection between humans nature. review provides comprehensive summary latest advancements gardening, including cultivated species, devices, technologies, current issues. also proposes perspectives based on researches serve reference for future research development.

Language: Английский

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How Can Resource-Exhausted Cities Get Out of “The Valley of Death”? An Evaluation Index System and Obstacle Degree Analysis of Green Sustainable Development

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 19(24), P. 16976 - 16976

Published: Dec. 17, 2022

Resource-based cities are suffering from resource scarcity and environmental deterioration. Spirit, vitality prosperity disappearing have moved towards "the valley of death" in terms urban development. This typically appears environments where it is difficult to maintain sustainable Based on empirical analysis, a qualitative analysis method for the selection evaluation indicators, as well quantitative index weighting principal component extraction constructing three-level system green development coal-resource-exhausted cities, was adopted. study also discussed life cycle at different stages resource-based including mature growing cities. We further argued that obstacle degree can act an basis make recommendations accordingly improve Through star-standard divisions statistical be explicated increase first stage greater than later stage, which more obvious with lower stars. The results show evolution trend stability coefficient. There no end sight development, this provide new perspective relieve declining promote

Language: Английский

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Ethnoecology of home garden landscapes on Seliu Island, Belitung District, Indonesia

Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 25(3)

Published: April 5, 2024

Abstract. Efendi D, Chikmawati T, Sulistijorini, Djuita NR. 2024. Ethnoecology of home garden landscapes on Seliu Island, Belitung District, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 25: 1304-1319. Indonesia, once famous for its copra production, is now a popular tourist destination mangoes. People this island use many plants from their gardens, but more information about the diversity in landscape needs to be presented. This study explored ethnoecology Island determine vegetation cover and role. Research methods include interviews, cruising, purposive sampling inventory calculate Importance Value Index (IVI). The research results showed that 119 species belonging 58 families were identified as growing gardens. Based habit type, herbaceous are mostly found. aspect utilization, medicinal most found plants. Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. had highest IVI (14.65). seven parts purposes, leaves widely used part. Home gardens have social, economic, cultural, ecological functions. Plant must preserved improved, considering separated main island, so plants' availability maintained.

Language: Английский

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Potensi Cadangan Karbon di Lembo Durian dan Hutan Sekunder Berbeda Umur di Kampung Intu Lingau Kecamatan Nyuatan Kabupaten Kutai Barat Kalimantan Timur

Jurnal Ilmiah Kehutanan Rimba Kalimantan/ULIN : Jurnal Hutan Tropis, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(2), P. 49 - 49

Published: Aug. 8, 2024

Kebudayaan yang melekat pada masyarakat Dayak Benuaq dan salah satunya tinggal di Kampung Intu Lingau yaitu kebiasaan membangun lembo (kebun buah) sekitar pemukiman. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengestimasi potensi biomassa, cadangan serapan karbon, serta produksi oksigen durian hutan sekunder berbeda umur Lingau, Kecamatan Nyuatan, Kabupaten Kutai Barat, Provinsi Kalimantan Timur. Tiga plot berukuran 20 m × dibuat empat lokasi muda, tua, tua. Biomassa karbon muda (114,07 53,62 ton/ha) tua (151,44 71,18 lebih besar dibandingkan (79,14 37,19 (113,41 53,31 ton/ha). Potensi karbondioksida masing-masing sebesar 112,6 ; 196,61 85,43 195,47 ton/ha Lembo memproduksi (33%) (19%) (15%). Informasi tentang dapat digunakan dalam perhitungan perdagangan pengelolaan lahan berhutan umumnya.

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Neighbourhood Services and Ageing in Place: An Extreme Industrialisation Perspective

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Environmental gerontologists recognise neighbourhood services as a key component of the social and physical environment where people age. Such play an important role in ageing by facilitating use other resources such parks networks. This role, though, depends on availability, accessibility, relevance services, which are implicit "neighbourhood service mix". In this chapter, we propose concept mix through theoretical synthesis, discuss its age-friendly neighbourhoods, demonstrate how it chronologically changes over heuristic call Neighbourhood Development Continuum (NDC). Implications decline access to for place expounded. Stakeholders ought work collaboratively preserve especially essential that more fundamental maintenance health life course. Governments must effectively enforce regulatory laws avoid extreme industrial practices may limit increase likelihood older residents relocating, moving into nursing homes, or losing sense attachment their neighbourhood.

Language: Английский

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