Multifunctionality and Sustainability of Urban Agriculture

Author(s)
Fleury, A. and Ba, A.
Publication language
English
Pages
3pp
Date published
01 Dec 2005
Type
Articles
Keywords
Livelihoods, Agriculture, Urban

Growing cities spontaneously tend to engulf unoccupied urban spaces, i.e. all the nonconstructed
areas whose presence seems unjustified. Cultivated areas are relocated towards the periphery. This is the spatial expression of the economic logic of ground rent which, in the long term, achieves a balance between economic productivity and land value.