Promoting urban agriculture and its opportunities and challenges—a global review

CG Wadumestrige Dona, G Mohan, K Fukushi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multifunctionality of urban agriculture can support the resolve of many urban challenges.
Therefore, it is vital to understand the contribution of academic studies on urban agriculture …

A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food

P Pradhan, M Callaghan, Y Hu, K Dahal, C Hunecke… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers
and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits …

contribution of home gardens to sustainable development: Perspectives from a supported opinion essay

M Santos, H Moreira, JA Cabral, R Gabriel… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Home gardening has a long history that started when humans became sedentary, being
traditionally considered an accessible source of food and medicinal plants to treat common …

Frozen section telepathology service: Efficiency and benefits of an e-health policy in South Tyrol

I Girolami, S Neri, A Eccher, M Brunelli… - Digital …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective/Background Telepathology has been widely adopted to allow intraoperative
pathology examinations to be performed remotely and for obtaining second opinion …

The contribution of urban garden cultivation to food self-sufficiency in areas at risk of food desertification during the Covid-19 pandemic

V Cattivelli - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the contribution made by the cultivation of urban gardens to the food
self-sufficiency of mountain municipalities at risk of food desertification during 2020 in South …

Socio-cultural appropriateness of the use of historic Persian gardens for modern urban edible gardens

M Amani-Beni, G Xie, Q Yang, A Russo… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Historic gardens have the ability to provide several ecosystem services in cities, including
provisioning services (ie, food production). The historic gardens in Iran (known as “Persian …

Review and analysis of the motivations associated with urban gardening in the pandemic period

V Cattivelli - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper examines people's motives for urban gardening during the pandemic waves of
2020 and 2021. Interest in this practice has often ebbed and flowed in response to changing …

A GIS-based multicriteria index to evaluate the mechanisability potential of Italian vineyard area

A Cogato, A Pezzuolo, CG Sørensen, R De Bei… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Planting criteria of new vineyards should comply with rational and sustainable criteria, taking
into account the potential mechanisability of existing viticultural areas. However, an …

Methods for the identification of urban, rural and peri-urban areas in Europe: An overview

V Cattivelli - Journal of Urban Regeneration & Renewal, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
This paper explores the methods formulated to identify urban, rural and peri-urban areas in
Europe over the last 15 years. The traditional methods based on urban–rural dichotomy are …

What motivations drive foreign gardeners to cultivate? Findings from urban gardening initiatives in Lombard municipalities

V Cattivelli - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines the motivations that drive foreign gardeners to cultivate a garden in
Lombard municipalities. Motivations underlying urban gardening are inspired by social …