Multifunctional peri-urban agriculture—A review of societal demands and the provision of goods and services by farming
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the relevance of multifunctional agriculture in peri-urban areas is presented, with a focus on agriculture in the context of environmental, social and economic functions of agriculture.
About: This article is published in Land Use Policy.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 561 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peri-urban agriculture & Urban agriculture.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current conceptual understanding of ecosystem services demand, indicators to measure demand and the approaches used to quantify and map demand and identify four distinct "demand types" which relate to different ecosystem service categories.
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...n these landscapes, traditional, production-driven forms of land ses are replaced by a mix of land uses meeting demands such as esthetical and recreational values, nature conservation or safeuarding of hydrological functions (Willemen et al., 2010; Holmes, 006; Zasada, 2011; Mander et al., 2007)....
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...Changing demand and preferences or goods and services supplied by the land (ecosystem services, ES)) result from factors such as increasing wealth, evidence of egative externalities of existing land management, urbanization, ifestyle changes and pressure on natural resources (Zasada, 2011)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic review of case study evidence on manifestations and underlying drivers for agricultural land use change in Europe, and find that farmers were very important as moderators between underlying drivers and manifestations of agricultural land-use change.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined an analytical framework to determine and assess ecosystem services at the landscape scale and examined the influence of consumer demand on flows and values of ecosystem services that originate from the agricultural landscape.
Abstract: Since the 1950s, intensification and scale enlargement of agriculture have changed agricultural landscapes across Europe. The intensification and scale enlargement of farming was initially driven by the large-scale application of synthetic fertilizers, mechanization and subsidies of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Then, after the 1990s, a further intensification and scale enlargement, and land abandonment in less favored areas was caused by globalization of commodity markets and CAP reforms. The landscape changes during the past six decades have changed the flows and values of ecosystem services. Here, we have reviewed the literature on agricultural policies and management, landscape structure and composition, and the contribution of ecosystem services to regional competitiveness. The objective was to define an analytical framework to determine and assess ecosystem services at the landscape scale. In contrast to natural ecosystems, ecosystem service flows and values in agricultural landscapes are often a result of interactions between agricultural management and ecological structures. We describe how land management by farmers and other land managers relates to landscape structure and composition. We also examine the influence of commodity markets and policies on the behavior of land managers. Additionally, we studied the influence of consumer demand on flows and values of the ecosystem services that originate from the agricultural landscape.
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...Although, there is an increasing recognition of the importance of the wider variety of ecosystem services, especially in peri-urban areas (Zasada 2011), in landscapes with intensively managed agriculture, focused on the optimization of 310 B....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a systematic understanding of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North, showing their similarities and differences, and to analyse their impact on urban food security.
Abstract: Food security is becoming an increasingly relevant topic in the Global North, especially in urban areas. Because such areas do not always have good access to nutritionally adequate food, the question of how to supply them is an urgent priority in order to maintain a healthy population. Urban and peri-urban agriculture, as sources of local fresh food, could play an important role. Whereas some scholars do not differentiate between peri-urban and urban agriculture, seeing them as a single entity, our hypothesis is that they are distinct, and that this has important consequences for food security and other issues. This has knock-on effects for food system planning and has not yet been appropriately analysed. The objectives of this study are to provide a systematic understanding of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North, showing their similarities and differences, and to analyse their impact on urban food security. To this end, an extensive literature review was conducted, resulting in the identification and comparison of their spatial, ecological and socio-economic characteristics. The findings are discussed in terms of their impact on food security in relation to the four levels of the food system: food production, processing, distribution and consumption. The results show that urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North indeed differ in most of their characteristics and consequently also in their ability to meet the food needs of urban inhabitants. While urban agriculture still meets food needs mainly at the household level, peri-urban agriculture can provide larger quantities and has broader distribution pathways, giving it a separate status in terms of food security. Nevertheless, both possess (unused) potential, making them valuable for urban food planning, and both face similar threats regarding urbanisation pressures, necessitating adequate planning measures.
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...In PUA, two prevailing and contrary forms of adaptation have been observed (Zasada 2011)....
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...One aspect that often hampers the area’s protection is the unclear or changing responsibilities of the various municipalities sharing the peri-urban area (Allen 2003), which can result in a lack of general planning (Zasada 2011)....
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...Exceptions to this are the lifestyle farmers, which is a term that encompasses part-time, hobby or retired farmers (Primdahl and Kristensen 2011; Zasada 2011)....
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...In contrast, the literature describes production-site units in peri-urban regions as professional farms of sizes ranging from\2 to 100 ha, with most farms usually near the lower end of this range (Geoffriau 2010; Zasada 2011, 2012; Martin et al. 2014)....
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...Increasing numbers of so-called lifestyle 348 I. Opitz et al. or hobby farmers have been observed (Primdahl and Kristensen 2011; Zasada 2011; Orsini 2013)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a quali-quantitative overview of peri-urban agriculture vis a vis urban expansion investigating the recent evolution of per-urban farms (1988-2010) in Toulouse, the fourth largest metropolitan region in France.
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...A dialogue between urban and rural stakeholders focusing on the functioning of socio-environmental systems, becomes crucial (Duvernoy et al., 2005; Vejre et al., 2007; Overbeek, 2009; Zasada, 2011; Duvernoy, 2016)....
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