Appraising agroecological urbanism: A vision for the future of sustainable cities

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dc.creatorChen, Acga
dc.creatorNoor Azmi, Nurul Syafiqah
dc.creatorNg, Yin Mei
dc.creatorLesueur, Didier
dc.creatorYusoff, Sumiani
dc.date2022-01
dc.date2022-01-11T15:23:55Z
dc.date2022-01-11T15:23:55Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:26:08Z
dc.descriptionBy the mid-century, urban areas are expected to house two-thirds of the world’s population of approximately 10 billion people. The key challenge will be to provide food for all with fewer farmers in rural areas and limited options for expanding cultivated fields in urban areas, with sustainable soil management being a fundamental criterion for achieving sustainability goals. Understanding how nature works in a fast changing world and fostering nature-based agriculture (such as lowinput farming) are crucial for sustaining food systems in the face of worsening urban heat island (UHI) effects and other climatic variables. The best fit for the context is transformative agroecology, which connects ecological networks, sustainable farming approaches, and social movements through change-oriented research and action. Even though agroecology has been practiced for over a century, its potential to address the socioeconomic impact of the food system remained largely unexplored until recently. Agroecological approaches, which involve effective interactions between researchers, policy makers, farmers, and consumers, can improve social cohesion and socioeconomic synergies while reducing the use of various agricultural inputs. This review presents a timeline of agroecology transformation from the past to the present and discusses the possibilities, prospects, and challenges of agroecological urbanism toward a resilient urban future.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/117454
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/59289
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceCheng, A.; Noor Azmi, N.S.; Ng, Y.M.; Lesueur, D.; Yusoff, S. (2022) Appraising agroecological urbanism: A vision for the future of sustainable cities. Sustainability 14(2): 590. 10 p. ISSN: 2071-1050
dc.subjectsustainable agriculture
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjecturban areas
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectagroecosystems
dc.subjectagricultura sostenible
dc.subjectcambio climático
dc.subjectfonas urbanas
dc.titleAppraising agroecological urbanism: A vision for the future of sustainable cities
dc.typeJournal Article

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