Permanent record · RIR–2056
Integrating Urban Agriculture into Municipal Zoning for Enhanced Food Security and Resilience
Urban agriculture is often overlooked in formal city planning despite its potential to mitigate food deserts and unemployment. This research explores how specific zoning and land-use policies can institutionalize urban agriculture to improve food security in rapidly growing urban centers.
How can municipal zoning frameworks be optimized to integrate urban agriculture into long-term city planning?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
The source suggests that urban agriculture is currently disconnected from formal planning; it remains useful to test how specific zoning policies influence the scalability of these practices.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
This study provides actionable policy frameworks for urban planners to enhance food resilience in vulnerable populations.
Academic placement
OECD fields and topic tags
Scope: Municipal urban planning departments in developing nations. · Method signals: Case study analysis, Policy document review
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Strategic urban governance and sustainable infrastructure management.
Comparative analysis of urban land-use policy and food system resilience.
Qualification signal
82/100
- Focus on the intersection of policy and food production.
- Avoid purely technical agricultural analysis.
- Open-access scholarly source and DOI metadata verified
Provenance
Research Idea Registry curation
- DOI and bibliographic metadata independently resolved
- Open-access status verified
- The research direction is transparently marked as AI-inferred
APA 7 source
Steenkamp, J., Cilliers, E. J., Cilliers, S. S., & Lategan, L. (2021). Food for Thought: Addressing Urban Food Security Risks through Urban Agriculture. Sustainability, 13(3), 1267. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031267
Paper abstract and discussion context; AI-inferred direction
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