The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework
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Urbanization and achieving sustainable agriculture are both major societal challenges. By reducing food miles and connecting people with nature, food cultivation in cities has several major advantages. However, due to further urban development (peri-) urban agriculture (UPA) is under threat. To strengthen UPA, we argue for considering UPA as a nature-based solution (NbS) supporting systemic approaches for societal challenges. However, academic knowledge on UPA’s contribution to various societal challenges of urbanization is still fragmented. This study addresses the gap by conducting a systemic literature review, incorporating 166 academic articles focusing on the global north. The results of the review show that UPA contributes to ten key societal challenges of urbanization: climate change, food security, biodiversity and ecosystem services, agricultural intensification, resource efficiency, urban renewal and regeneration, land management, public health, social cohesion, and economic growth. The value of UPA is its multifunctionality in providing social, economic and environmental co-benefits and ecosystem services. When implementing UPA, social, institutional, economic, technical, geographical, and ecological drivers and constraints need to be considered. To upscale UPA successfully, the study develops an integrative assessment framework for evaluating the implementation and impact efficiency of UPA. This framework should be tested based on the example of edible cities.
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There is inconsistency in science-policy integration and knowledge transfer at strategic and urban planning levels, as well as limited evaluation of how NbS generate or contribute to financial benefits.
“There is related inconsistency in science–policy integration and knowledge transfer at strategic and urban planning levels (26, 48, 56, 59, 63, 66–68) as well as limited evaluation of how NbS generate or contribute to financial benefits (69).”
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Section 3.2.10 (page unavailable) says only 12 reviewed papers addressed the economic benefits of urban and peri-urban agriculture, while research more often addressed environmental or social aspects. This supports a relative gap in research on economic benefits, but the paper does not establish limited evaluation of how NbS generally generate financial benefits. Citation 69 is attached to the financial-benefits clause, not the preceding science–policy clause. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredPositive benefits of NbS on human well-being from engaging with gardening and urban agriculture and employing NbS to lower health risks and vulnerabilities are supported.
“This is further supported by positive benefits of NbS on human well-being (47, 63) from engaging with gardening and urban agriculture in general (22, 63) and employing NbS to lower health risks and vulnerabilities (30).”
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- Authors
- Artmann, M., & Sartison, K.
- Affiliations
- Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Artmann, Martina
- ORCID
- Artmann, Martina
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2018-06-09
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1937
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2808231215
- Cited by
- 302
- References
- 176
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 50 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 61 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 19.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
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- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (AR 1121/1-1)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Aquatic Science › Innovations in Aquaponics and Hydroponics Systems
- Keywords
- urban agriculture, peri-urban agriculture, nature-based solutions, urbanization, food security, ecosystem services, biodiversity, climate change mitigation, agricultural intensification, resource efficiency, urban regeneration, land management, social cohesion, edible cities, co-benefits
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