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Urban farming; ecosystems and climate change adaptation in urban environments: the case of SATURN Pan European programme
The ‘System and sustainable Approach to virTuous interaction of Urban and Rural LaNdscapes’ (SATURN) project is exploring how resilience at a city scale might be achieved and how the issues of landscape fragmentation, governance and land management can be addressed resulting in a sustainable future. The EIT Climate-KIC SATURN project is based on a collaboration between three cities of very different scales and contexts, those of Gothenburg in western Sweden, Trento in northern Italy, and Birmingham in the United Kingdom. This paper focuses on the ways in which urban farming can become an important tool to mitigate or adapt to climate change in urban environments by exploring how the three major cities of SATURN deal with these concepts. Using the experience gained throughout the SATURN project as well as the strong communication developed within the consortium, the paper introduces the reasons why urban farming is not just an agricultural activity, but it relates to climate awareness, health and an element of community. With the examples of different urban farming models, this research presents the fully entrepreneurial model of Gothenburg, where a business model fosters sustainable and successful small-scale farming through municipal management of small allotments with associated basic infrastructure leased out to entrepreneurs. Public underutilized land is matched with farmers in order for them to scale up their businesses and provide sustainable food, by limiting the shipping distance of the produce. In the Trento case, bottom-up and more institutional processes have been combined to foster short local supply chains through the Nutrire Trento networking process which could benefit from the introduction of a land lease scheme named ‘banca della terra’ (to support agricultural land recovery). The two tools aim to provide support to farmers to foster their turnover and make use of underutilised land with the creation of matchmaking platforms. The case of Birmingham presents a different model where farming in an ...
Urban farming; ecosystems and climate change adaptation in urban environments: the case of SATURN Pan European programme
The ‘System and sustainable Approach to virTuous interaction of Urban and Rural LaNdscapes’ (SATURN) project is exploring how resilience at a city scale might be achieved and how the issues of landscape fragmentation, governance and land management can be addressed resulting in a sustainable future. The EIT Climate-KIC SATURN project is based on a collaboration between three cities of very different scales and contexts, those of Gothenburg in western Sweden, Trento in northern Italy, and Birmingham in the United Kingdom. This paper focuses on the ways in which urban farming can become an important tool to mitigate or adapt to climate change in urban environments by exploring how the three major cities of SATURN deal with these concepts. Using the experience gained throughout the SATURN project as well as the strong communication developed within the consortium, the paper introduces the reasons why urban farming is not just an agricultural activity, but it relates to climate awareness, health and an element of community. With the examples of different urban farming models, this research presents the fully entrepreneurial model of Gothenburg, where a business model fosters sustainable and successful small-scale farming through municipal management of small allotments with associated basic infrastructure leased out to entrepreneurs. Public underutilized land is matched with farmers in order for them to scale up their businesses and provide sustainable food, by limiting the shipping distance of the produce. In the Trento case, bottom-up and more institutional processes have been combined to foster short local supply chains through the Nutrire Trento networking process which could benefit from the introduction of a land lease scheme named ‘banca della terra’ (to support agricultural land recovery). The two tools aim to provide support to farmers to foster their turnover and make use of underutilised land with the creation of matchmaking platforms. The case of Birmingham presents a different model where farming in an ...
Urban farming; ecosystems and climate change adaptation in urban environments: the case of SATURN Pan European programme
Nikologianni, A. (author) / Betta, A. (author) / Andreola, M. (author) / Pianegonda, A. (author) / Battistel, G. A. (author) / Ternell, A. (author) / Gretter, A. (author) / Nikologianni, A. / Betta, A. / Andreola, M.
2022-01-01
doi:10.30958/ajs.9-1-1
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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