The contribution of small-scale food production in urban areas to the sustainable development goals: a review and case study

Food production depends upon the adequate provision of underpinning ecosystem services, such as pollination. Paradoxically, conventional farming practices are undermining these services and resulting in degraded soils, polluted waters, greenhouse gas emissions and massive loss of biodiversity includ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sustainability science Jg. 15; H. 6; S. 1585 - 1599
Hauptverfasser: Nicholls, Elizabeth, Ely, Adrian, Birkin, Linda, Basu, Parthiba, Goulson, Dave
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Tokyo Springer Japan 01.11.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Schlagworte:
Agricultural practices
Agriculture
Allotments
Biodiversity
Biodiversity loss
Case studies
Climate Change Management and Policy
Crop diversification
Crops
Earth and Environmental Science
Economic conditions
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
employment
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management
Farming
Farming systems
Food
Food production
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Intensive farming
Landscape Ecology
Pesticides
Plant reproduction
Pollination
Pollinators
Public Health
Soil degradation
Soil pollution
Soils
Special Feature: Exploring Interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals: Case Studies from Three Continents
Special Feature: Review Article
Sustainability
sustainability science and engineering
sustainable agriculture
Sustainable Development
Sustainable food systems
Sustainable production
Urban agriculture
Urban areas
Urban farming
Urban studies
Agriculture
Urban farming
Biodiversity
Food security
Pesticides
ISSN:1862-4065, 1862-4057
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Zusammenfassung:Food production depends upon the adequate provision of underpinning ecosystem services, such as pollination. Paradoxically, conventional farming practices are undermining these services and resulting in degraded soils, polluted waters, greenhouse gas emissions and massive loss of biodiversity including declines in pollinators. In essence, farming is undermining the ecosystem services it relies upon. Finding alternative more sustainable ways to meet growing food demands which simultaneously support biodiversity is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Here, we review the potential of urban and peri-urban agriculture to contribute to sustainable food production, using the 17 sustainable development goals set by the United Nations General Assembly as a framework. We present new data from a case study of urban gardens and allotments in the city of Brighton and Hove, UK. Such urban and peri-urban landholdings tend to be small and labour-intensive, characterised by a high diversity of crops including perennials and annuals. Our data demonstrate that this type of agricultural system can be highly productive and that it has environmental and social advantages over industrial agriculture in that crops are usually produced using few synthetic inputs and are destined for local consumption. Overall, we conclude that food grown on small-scale areas in and near cities is making a significant contribution to feeding the world and that this type of agriculture is likely to be relatively favourable for some ecosystem services, such as supporting healthy soils. However, major knowledge gaps remain, for example with regard to productivity, economic and employment impacts, pesticide use and the implications for biodiversity.
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ISSN:1862-4065
1862-4057
DOI:10.1007/s11625-020-00792-z