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Sunday, March 21, 2021

OF FOOD PRODUCTION IN URBAN AREAS: MEET THE URBAN HORTICULTURE! (PT 1/2)

Keywords: food, food security, food production, urban areas, horticulture, urban horticulture, soil-based horticulture, controlled environment horticulture, urban agriculture, research, city, Sheffield, UK, United Kingdom, Great Britain

 


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Parole chiave: cibo, sicurezza alimentare, produzione alimentare, aree urbane, orticoltura, orticoltura urbana, orticoltura basata su suolo, orticoltura in ambientale controllato, agricoltura urbana, ricerca, città, Sheffield, Inghilterra, Regno Unito, Gran Bretagna

 
 

 
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Ooooh, hello dear English speaking-reading-hearing listener, welcome back to me, @sciencemug, the blog/podcast/twitter&instagram accounts/entity behind the unsuccessful e-shop stuffngo on zazzle.com which tells you science stories while studying a lot for a degree in “How to read Icelandic volcanoes names without making your tongue need to get into therapy and your brain start working hard on a de-evolution five-nanoseconds plan, aaand which talks to you thanks to the voice, kidnapped via a voodoo-wireless trick, from a veeery very very dumb human. Aaand which does all of this in English-question-mark, a language that is to proper English what a record-breaking snowstorm in NY this winter is to something disproving global warming. 

Today I’m gonna tell you a story about urban areas and food production!

Vegetables in a supermarket stand
Veggies and the urban horticulture style (by @sciencemug)
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pic by Scott Warman is a free one (source: Unsplash); adapted by @sciencemug]

In assessing the potential of urban horticulture (UH) as a concrete source of food for urban areas inhabitants, a bunch of researchers of the University of Sheffield, England, UK, lead by Dr. Jill L. Edmondson, build a case study by which they show that there is way enough land available within the city of Sheffield to feed its people with all the fruit and vegetable they need. Dr. Edmonson and colleagues - aka the E-Science-Pack – then publish