Toward the Creation of Urban Foodscapes: Case Studies of Successful Urban Agriculture Projects for Income Generation, Food Security, and Social Cohesion

Stefani, Monique Centrone; Orsini, Francesco; Magrefi, F.; Sanyé‐Mengual, Esther; Pennisi, Giuseppina; Michelon, Nicola; Bazzocchi, Giovanni Giorgio; Gianquinto, Giorgio

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“…In cities, however, a major constraint limiting the development of UA projects is associated with land access, given that generally any other activity has a greater and faster return of investment (Wästfelt and Zhang, 2016), and the fact that UA still struggles to have a recognized economic role (Specht et al, 2016). Consistently, in USA, grassroot UA initiatives were shown to occur in districts with highest land value, a phenomenon that was linked with smaller plot size (Rogus and Dimitri, 2015) and therefore limited income perspectives (Centrone Stefani et al, 2018).…”

Section: Land Accessmentioning

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Features and Functions of Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the Global North: A Review

Orsini

Pennisi

Michelon

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Section: Land Accessmentioning

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Features and Functions of Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the Global North: A Review

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Pennisi

Michelon

et al. 2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…A mathematical description of the structure of suburban agricultural production in the form of a simulation model was presented (1)- (7). This simulation demonstrates the work of agglomeration, and an optimization problem, in which the objective function assumes the maximization of an agricultural product (8)- (13). A model for optimizing the structure of production in suburban agriculture was implemented in order to increase production within the preferred options.…”

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“…Despite the innovative approach, these criteria for the value creation of civilian agriculture are not suitable for implementation in developing countries. Article [13] points to the same aspects, revealing the value of urban agriculture (UA). The authors point to the UA concept as a strategic means to achieve sustainable urban food security at present and in the future.…”

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“…Below are the calculated data obtained as a result of solving the problem ( 8)- (13). The digital twin of the farm, which simulates the operation of a suburban economy depending on the parameters of the external environment, was implemented in the MATHCAD package environment with decision support based on formalized knowledge and real data.…”

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Opportunities and perspectives of the digital twins’ conception: the case in agriculture

Ibrahimov¹,

Rzayeva

Balayev

2023

EEJET

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The article discusses the means and directions for improving the results of simulation modeling of suburban agriculture and, as a result, the creation of digital twins of farms. Most innovative technologies are still considered new areas for experimentation in agriculture. However, the digital twins being developed for agriculture implement many of the ideas that have already been tested in other industries. The article presents an optimization problem that allows the simulation of suburban agriculture to provide the city with fresh products. Particular attention is paid to modeling the sustainable development of suburban agriculture and the characterization of related data. At the same time, one of the biggest challenges is the need to constantly collect and update expanding data about the object in order to create digital twins. The result of the study is the construction of a simulation modeling system that forms digital twins of suburban crop and livestock production, and the determination of priorities for the selection of relevant data. In order to determine the conditions for realizing opportunities in the transition from suburban farming simulation to digital twins, a general modeling system is presented, consisting of simulation and optimization models, and a set of metrics is selected for the constant collection and updating of the digital twin. The created simulation model was previously worked out by running dozens of different options in the form of sets of initial data, and as a result of the model's operation, the article presents the best (optimal) responses. The necessary steps for the realization of this transition are defined. As a result of the activity of the proposed conceptual system, real-time information, and analytics allows to optimize the performance of the farm

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“…A strategic response to global warming is the urban agriculture (UA): cultivating plants, at large scale, into cities, since most of the agricultural terrains outside cities are already exploited (Goldstein et al, 2016;Nwosisi and Nandwani, 2018;Stefani et al, 2018). There are several UA versions, the most promising seeming to be the building-integrated agriculture (BIA), because our typical cities have not enough spare surfaces for proper agriculture.…”

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Carbon Offset Calculators

Popa

2021

Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași. Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Electronics Section

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The nowadays climate warming trend is of significance because it is related with the human activities starting from the mid-18th century. This climate warming coincides with the increasing of the greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. Some solutions, like urban agriculture, are aimied to oppose this phenomenon. We are studying a solution to increase the carbon sequestration in urban environments – the rooftop greenhouse buildings - and this work introduces an useful tool for assessing the efficiency of projects of this kind, respectively a fuzzy expert application, made in MATLAB, for real-time estimating the carbon sequestration capacity.

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Toward the Creation of Urban Foodscapes: Case Studies of Successful Urban Agriculture Projects for Income Generation, Food Security, and Social Cohesion

Cited by 5 publications

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Features and Functions of Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the Global North: A Review

Features and Functions of Multifunctional Urban Agriculture in the Global North: A Review

Opportunities and perspectives of the digital twins’ conception: the case in agriculture

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