Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
What is urban agriculture?
Urban agriculture (UA) can be understood as the cultivation, processing, marketing
and distribution of food, forestry and horticultural products that occur in built-up
'intra-urban' areas. The broader term, urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA), is
typically used to describe all urban food production systems, both in the built up
areas and along 'peri-urban' zones or 'fringes' (also referred to as 'green-belts') of
cities and towns on public, private and communal or customary land. In most cases,
UA and UPA are both used to describe, conceptually, the same type of occurrence
