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Armando Silva-Afonso and Carla Pimentel-Rodrigues
The objective of this article is to deepen knowledge about the existing connections, at the level of urban environments, between energy, water, and nutrients (or food). Energy and basic resources?water and food?are closely interconnected, which is why th...
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Sayaka Ushimaru, Rintaro Iwata, Eka Rastiyanto Amrullah, Arini W. Utami and Akira Ishida
In many developing countries, ensuring a stable and affordable supply of safe and nutritious food for urban dwellers, especially impoverished households, has become an urgent policy issue due to growing urban populations. Since urban and peri-urban agric...
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Ibrahim Abdoul Nasser and Elhadi Adam
Urbanisation is the process whereby cities are transformed into large sprawling areas. Urbanisation combined with a continuous increase in population makes food security crucial for sustainable development. Urbanisation poses a threat to agricultural lan...
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Anestis Kousis and Christos Tjortjis
In recent years, the emergence of the smart city concept has garnered attention as a promising innovation aimed at addressing the multifactorial challenges arising from the concurrent trends of urban population growth and the climate crisis. In this stud...
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Alinor Abdi Osman and Gumataw Kifle Abebe
This study investigates the phenomenon of forced displacement in Somalia over the past few decades and its implications for the livelihoods and food security of IDP communities. Employing a mixed-method approach, the study draws on various theories to in...
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Yuyan Wang, Xi Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Bo Xiong and Xuepeng Shi
Population growth and urban expansion have led to increased demand for buildings. Optimizing the building façade design, using integrated photovoltaic (PV) shading and vertical farming (VF) can reduce building energy consumption while ensuring a partial ...
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Akuto Akpedze Konou, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka and Jérôme Chenal
Urban agriculture (UA) is an ancient practice in Africa that meets social- and health-related needs. However, it is unclear whether architects and urban planners have incorporated the topic into their research and practices. This study aimed to assess th...
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Xiuju Feng, Jian Gao, Jittaporn Sriboonjit, Zhongmin Wang, Jianxu Liu and Songsak Sriboonchitta
The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), an important industrial belt for food security for China, is facing the challenge of decreasing cultivated land in the process of rapid urbanization. In this case, how to improve the cultivated land use efficiency ...
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Zuxuan Song, Fangmei Liu, Wenbo Lv and Jianwu Yan
Exploring the transformation process of urban agricultural functions and its interaction with carbon effects based on regional differences is of great positive significance for achieving a low-carbon sustainable development of agriculture in metropolitan...
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Tianli Wang, Yanji Ma and Siqi Luo
As one of the major new agricultural business entities, agricultural leading enterprises (ALEs) are responsible for ensuring national food security, leading agricultural and rural modernization, and increasing farmers? employment prospects and incomes. F...
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