SUMMARYThe current paper briefly summarizes the available evidence regarding the potential of urban agriculture to respond to a number of key urban challenges and reviews the perspectives on urban agriculture applied by local and national authorities. The last section of the paper briefly presents the authors’ views on the development of urban agriculture as an integral part of sustainable city development.
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