region: Global
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Multifunctional rooftop horticulture: a promising strategy for intensifying horticulture production in cities
This publication addresses the main features of rooftop horticulture, providing an interdisciplinary assessment of different approaches for development and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop horticulture may assume in different contexts, bringing together existing experiences as well as suggestions for planning of future sustainable cities.
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Milan Urban Food Policy Pact. Selected Good Practices from Cities
This book collects 49 good practices from signatory cities of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact that already demonstrate actions, policies and results in various fields such as food waste reduction and reuse, urban and peri-urban agriculture, improved governance and sustainable diets.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 30 – Rural-urban linkages
This issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine is a co-production of ILEIA and RUAF to explore rural-urban linkages in renewing our food systems.
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City region food systems literature review
This report briefly and concisely analyses and systematises the content, definitions and delimitations of the concept of City Region Food Systems.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 29 – City Region Food Systems
This Urban Agriculture Magazine addresses city region food systems. A policy and practice approach focusing on urban food from a city-region perspective.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 28 – Innovations in Urban Agriculture
This Urban Agriculture Magazine highlights innovations in urban agriculture. Innovation is taking place continuously, exploring the multiple functions of urban agriculture, including food security, income generation and environmental management.
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Potential impacts of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation
Short summary of an electronic discussion on different impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation.
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Guideline 3: Calculating climate change related indicators of urban/regional food production and consumption
This manual proposes a methodology to calculate climate change related indicators of urban/regional food production and consumption.
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Guideline 2: Monitoring of temperature effects
This guideline assesses the hypothesis that urban agriculture and forestry will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savings.
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Urban Agriculture Magazine: A city compilation
The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact is going to be one of the most important legacies of Expo 2015. It acknowledges that cities, which host over half the world’s population, have a strategic role to play in developing sustainable food systems and promoting healthy diets and improved urban environments. To this date, about 50 cities…