Implications of a Climate-Smart Approach to Food and Income Security for Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review

NZ Khumalo, M Sibanda, L Mdoda - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Climate change presents a significant threat to humanity. It affects agriculture, food supply,
and economic development. Urban agriculture (UA) is an alternate climate-smart approach …

Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss

A Balmford, IJ Bateman, A Eyres… - Philosophical …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity,
yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress to date in …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the global warming potential of animal waste-based organic liquid fertilizer for urban hydroponic farms

VD Brousseau, BP Goldstein, D Leroux… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban farms, particularly those utilizing vertical space and hydroponics, have the potential to
address many challenges of the existing food system. The use of organic inputs in …

Food systems restoration

D Knorr, MA Augustin - Sustainable Food Technology, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The current global food system is unsustainable. The depletion of natural resources and
increased environmental emissions, climate change, biodiversity loss and increasing …

A Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Plant Factories

R Menon, AJ Both, F You - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2025 - Elsevier
The projected high energy consumption associated with urban food systems underscores
the need for sustainable solutions in the face of expanding urbanization. Within this context …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring sustainability of urban agriculture: Who is going to do it and how?

S Eiter, W Fjellstad, L Van Schaik - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture is often considered a tool to increase the economic, social and
environmental sustainability of cities and city food systems. However, sustainability is difficult …

Beyond urban farm and community garden, a new typology of urban and peri‐urban agriculture in Europe

JE Jansma, EJ Veen, D Müller - Urban Agriculture & Regional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Today, many cites in Europe have rediscovered urban and peri‐urban agriculture (UA) as a
contributor to a more healthy and sustainable urban environment. However, UA has not yet …

[HTML][HTML] Rediscovering circularity in productive urban landscapes

A Iida, T Terada, K Tsuchiya, T Yamaguchi… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
The recycling of urban green waste generated from urban forests is important in enhancing
urban circularity; however, most green waste remains underutilized. An effective way to …

A classification scheme for urban agriculture combining technical properties with characteristics related to the economic and social sustainability

M Douziech, S Mann, S Galley, J Lansche - Agronomy for Sustainable …, 2024 - Springer
Urban agriculture is often associated with sustainable agricultural practices. However, the
variety of systems qualifying as urban agriculture and the limited information available about …

Feeding the cities: Urban agriculture for food security and sustainability of urban areas

MM Khan, A Younis, MT Akram, MM Ijaz… - CABI …, 2024 - cabidigitallibrary.org
With the increasing migration of people to urban areas, the demand for extra, fresh, and
healthy food in cities has escalated manyfold. Further, anthropogenic activities, high rise …