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Integrating Urban Agriculture into Municipal Zoning for Enhanced Food Security and Resilience
Urban agriculture is often overlooked in formal city planning despite its potential to mitigate food deserts and unemployment. This research explores how specific zoning and land-use policies can institutionalize urban agriculture to improve food security in rapidly growing urban centers.
In plain words
Growing food inside cities can help where fresh food is hard to find and jobs are scarce, yet city plans often ignore it. How could zoning rules make room for urban farming in fast-growing cities in developing countries?
Primary research question
How can municipal zoning frameworks be optimized to integrate urban agriculture into long-term city planning?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
The source suggests that urban agriculture is currently disconnected from formal planning; it remains useful to test how specific zoning policies influence the scalability of these practices.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
This study provides actionable policy frameworks for urban planners to enhance food resilience in vulnerable populations.
Academic placement
Academic fields and topic tags
Study frame: Municipal urban planning departments in developing nations. · Method signals: Case study analysis, Policy document review
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Professional master’s / MBA
Strategic urban governance and sustainable infrastructure management.
Doctoral
Comparative analysis of urban land-use policy and food system resilience.
- originality
- Moderate
- methodology
- Accessible
- Data access
- Accessible
- ethics
- Accessible
Quality and audit
82/100 quality
Safeguard-based audit was not recorded under the prior standard.
- Focus on the intersection of policy and food production.
- Avoid purely technical agricultural analysis.
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APA 7 source
Steenkamp, J., Cilliers, E. J., Cilliers, S. S., & Lategan, L. (2021). Food for Thought: Addressing Urban Food Security Risks through Urban Agriculture. Sustainability, 13(3), 1267. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031267
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