Mapping and Assessing Urban Agriculture in Rome

Cavallo, Aurora; Donato, Benedetta Di; Marino, Davide

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.066

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“…These participatory AFNs contribute to upcoming new and share economy concepts within the food sector addressing food supply re-localization [52,60]. Many empirical studies confirm direct sale's importance in agglomerations: Within the municipality of Rome 60% of the farms sell directly along with a recently increasing number of farmers' markets dispersed throughout the city [61]. More than one quarter of the farms located in Ile-de-France exploit short supply food chains with increasing proportions approaching Paris [52], about 30% of the Polish urban farms market directly [62], and near Montreal more farms market directly compared to farms located further outwards [14].…”

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The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

Pölling

Mergenthaler

2017

Sustainability

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Consumer-oriented diversification activities, such as direct sale ("deepening") as well as tourism services and care farming ("broadening"), are common business strategies of farms within urban areas. This empirical study investigates determinants of urban farming's diversification decisions by analyzing a dataset of 123 farmers in German Ruhr Metropolis. Binary logit models are used here as econometric method to determine characteristics influencing the decision to diversify. Farm characteristics, which encourage the implementation of "deepening" strategies, are: larger farm sizes, high-value production, organic farming, and livestock production. By contrast, the consumer-oriented "broadening" strategies tourism services and care farming prevail on smaller farms and on farms with horses and higher grassland shares. Agricultural extension services increase the odds to diversify. The results of the conducted binary logistic regressions show increasing odds and predicted probabilities for "deepening" and "broadening" activities when approaching the city. Farms' location advantages close to cities can be used best when applying consumer-oriented "deepening" or "broadening" strategies; namely, direct sale or other short supply chains, tourism services, and care farming. Viable business strategies of urban farming support a forward-looking integration into urban economy, society, and decision-making.

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“…The large number of possible clients raises interest in care farming in densely populated areas. This is theoretically and empirically discussed [10,60,61,68]. In 1997, the number of Dutch care farms was about 70, but nine years later the number reached more than 600 [67].…”

Section: City-proximitymentioning

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The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

Pölling

Mergenthaler

2017

Sustainability

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“…In the more economically developed countries (MEDCs), urban farming and urban gardening (which includes animal husbandry, aquaculture, agroforestry, urban beekeeping, and urban horticulture) most often takes the form of a social movement for sustainable communities founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism, but also as a branding activity, for example for tourists (Cavallo et al . ; Prové et al . ).…”

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Deprivation and the Rural‐Urban Trap

Dymitrow

Biegańska

Grzelak-Kostulska

2017

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Departing from the idea that cultural mechanisms are capable of allowing for conceptual dichotomies to create oppression, this paper challenges the engrained tradition of using 'urban/rural' as guiding labels in societal organisation when seen through the prism of deprivation. Two Polish deprivation-ridden estates --one 'urban' and one 'rural' --were investigated. Having taken account of the residents' everyday lives in the socio-economic, material and discursive dimensions, our findings indicate that the notions of rurality and urbanity imbricate and leapfrog meaningful territories at the local level. Realising the danger of deploying stereotypes as beacons in governance, from this richly contextualised account we draw that many problems today are space-independent and cannot be attenuated by following development paths reinvented in the name of empirically questionable yet culturally sustained and politically ontologised spatialities. This, then, calls for rethinking both the discursivity and the elusiveness of rural-urban thinking in the context of deprivation.

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“…Interestingly, this small-scale type of farming is increasingly appreciated around cities, as it provides nearby citizens with the opportunity to experience the cultivation and harvesting of crops, see small farm animals, or gain agricultural knowledge (Zasada 2011). This new rise in urban agriculture may keep agricultural land in peri-urban areas in production (Cavallo et al 2016;Dieleman 2015), but it is unclear whether the income generated by these activities will be able to help farmers to pay the higher land rents near cities in the long run.…”

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Determinants of Farmland Abandonment on the Urban–Rural Fringe

Zhou

Koomen

2020

Environmental Management

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China's urban explosion has resulted in a substantial loss of agricultural production on the fringes of many cities. Farmland is not only converted into urban uses but also taken out of production because it has lost its value for those who can farm it. This farmland abandonment process has received little research attention. This paper studies the abandonment of farmland around the rapidly urbanizing city of Wuhan and aims to identify its important determinants based on an extensive field survey among local farmers. Around 800 semi-structured field interviews were conducted to capture the parcel and location characteristics, farming practices, and household characteristics. Important parcel-related drivers of land abandonment are lack of family members to work the land and fragmentation of parcels. Spatial characteristics are less important, except for the presence of certain soil types that favour cultivation and designation under the farmland protection policy. The planted crop species and the option to transfer land to other farmers are important farming practices to continue cultivation. Moreover, farmers with a higher farming income and lower education levels are less likely to abandon their farmland. We suggest that land use policies can help in preventing further farmland abandonment by steering urban development away from the most suitable soils for farming and concentrating development to limit the fragmentation of parcels. Strengthening the land market and removing the remaining barriers for farmers to transfer land to colleagues can further help to keep farmland in production.

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Mapping and Assessing Urban Agriculture in Rome

Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

The Location Matters: Determinants for “Deepening” and “Broadening” Diversification Strategies in Ruhr Metropolis’ Urban Farming

Deprivation and the Rural‐Urban Trap

Determinants of Farmland Abandonment on the Urban–Rural Fringe

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