JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
Integrity Research Journals
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Model: Open Access/Peer Reviewed
DOI: 10.31248/JASP
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Adoption of urban farming as a means of soil reclamation practices
https://doi.org/10.31248/JASP2024.488 | Article Number: E38A24702 | Vol.9 (5) - October 2024
Received Date: 09 September 2024 | Accepted Date: 03 October 2024 | Published Date: 30 October 2024
Authors: O. P. Orogbemi* and A. T. Sharafadeen
Keywords: Agriculture, food, degradation, urbanization., urban farming
Rapid and emerging world population coupled with climate change have led to landscape transformation accompanied by rapid expansion of urban areas globally. This paper contributes to the discussion of how urban farming is serving as a “saving grace” to our degraded land covers that have witnessed human-driven degradation processes by highlighting how natural and socioeconomic forces trigger soil depletion and eventually loss of quality land cover. And also, how the solutions depend on us humans. The study aimed to identify and synthesize the interactions of urbanization-driven factors with direct or indirect, impacts on land degradation, focusing on how human activities have affected our lands over time. Based on complex and diverse interactions among influencing factors, a relevant contribution to land degradation was shown to derive from socioeconomic drivers, the most important of which was population growth and urban sprawl. Viewing our land areas as socio-environmental systems adapting to intense socioeconomic transformations, based on this, a key measure was suggested which is "urban farming" not only to support urban planning and development but also to sustain food production and healthy food living.
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