Add to ORKGUrban Agriculture (UA) in becoming more visible globally, in part due to the crisis of the food system in 2007-8 but also due to recognition of the benefits of the practice in providing food, biodiversity and contributions toward sustainability. UA is considered in this thesis as a form of ‘food system relocalization’ which provides an alternative to the global food system. Relocalizing food systems can contribute to the ‘right-sizing’ of economies advocated by sustainable degrowth. I investigate how UA is constructed in Mumbai and the reasons why middle and high-income urban farmers chose to engage in the practice. This study has a qualitative methodology comprising of a case study of Urban Leaves - a citizen initiative promoting UA, onlin...
For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the e...
As the global sustainability challenge intensifies, food has emerged as a critical issue in sustaina...
Humanity is facing massive sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the associated loss...
In urban India, food gardening has proliferated among upper-caste, middle-class people to mitigate f...
Urban agriculture (UA) is regarded as an emerging tool and strategy for sustainable urban developmen...
Urban agriculture (UA) is a strategic means of achieving sustainable urban food security now and int...
Urban agriculture has the potential to be a source of great social and environmental good within a c...
Last century witnessed an unprecedented growth of cities which has led to the consolidation of an em...
As the food system is becoming increasingly global, and the world’s population increasingly urban, f...
Conceptualising sustainable development as that which seeks to achieve holistic well-being means tha...
The contemporary interest in urban cultivation in the global North as a component of sustainable foo...
Urban fringe is a region of urban-rural interface, continuously moving outward in response to urban ...
Urban agriculture, urban gardening or urban farming is the practice of cultivating, processing and m...
Abstract: Urban agriculture is increasingly gaining attention due to current global trends, which in...
This paper presents a new interpretation of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus, capable of identifying link...
For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the e...
As the global sustainability challenge intensifies, food has emerged as a critical issue in sustaina...
Humanity is facing massive sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the associated loss...
In urban India, food gardening has proliferated among upper-caste, middle-class people to mitigate f...
Urban agriculture (UA) is regarded as an emerging tool and strategy for sustainable urban developmen...
Urban agriculture (UA) is a strategic means of achieving sustainable urban food security now and int...
Urban agriculture has the potential to be a source of great social and environmental good within a c...
Last century witnessed an unprecedented growth of cities which has led to the consolidation of an em...
As the food system is becoming increasingly global, and the world’s population increasingly urban, f...
Conceptualising sustainable development as that which seeks to achieve holistic well-being means tha...
The contemporary interest in urban cultivation in the global North as a component of sustainable foo...
Urban fringe is a region of urban-rural interface, continuously moving outward in response to urban ...
Urban agriculture, urban gardening or urban farming is the practice of cultivating, processing and m...
Abstract: Urban agriculture is increasingly gaining attention due to current global trends, which in...
This paper presents a new interpretation of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus, capable of identifying link...
For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the e...
As the global sustainability challenge intensifies, food has emerged as a critical issue in sustaina...
Humanity is facing massive sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the associated loss...