Urban Agriculture—More Than Food Production

Urban agriculture describes the growing of plants and animals in and around cities, and it involves activities such as production, processing, delivery and marketing of agricultural products. Urban fabrics can be composed of manifold urban and peri-urban agriculture depending on spatiality (e.g. rooftop gardens, indoor farming), the actors involved (e.g. family farms, community supported agriculture), and the organizational perspective (e.g. market orientation including urban farming or subsistence activities such as urban gardening). Part II aims to contribute to an increased understanding about the impacts and framework conditions for the implementation of urban agriculture taking into account various types of urban food production, such as allotment gardens (Breuste and Artmann), community gardens (Liu), community supported agriculture (La Rosa), home gardens (Dissanayake and Dilini) and the edible city concept (Artmann and Reffel). Thereby, the case studies used cover a wide range of geographical backgrounds from the Global South and North, such as Pakistan (Waseem and Breuste), Sri Lanka (Dissanayake and Dilini), China (Liu), Spain (Breuste and Hufnagl), Italy (La Rosa), Austria (Breuste and Artmann) and Germany (Artmann and Reffel). Part II aims at the development of a comprehensive understanding of urban agriculture and the challenges and changes of food production in cities.