Project description
Growing sustainable urban farming solutions
Europe’s rural and urban areas are facing negative impacts from climate change, biodiversity loss, unsustainable resource use, and increasing disconnection between citizens from urban and rural areas. The EU-funded FOODCITYBOOST project aims to bridge the urban-rural gap by addressing these challenges through innovative urban farming solutions. Recognising the potential of urban farming, the project will develop a decision-support tool, offering evidence-based indicators and policy guidance. Collaborating with over 100 stakeholders across 6 case studies, FOODCITYBOOST will use living labs to learn from successful urban farming regions. Integrating expertise from various fields, the project seeks to shape a sustainable urban farming landscape that meets community needs while minimising negative impacts.
Objective
Europes rural and urban areas are facing increasing negative impacts from climate change, biodiversity loss, unsustainable resource use, and an increasing disconnect between citizens from urban and rural areas. These megatrends threaten the sustainability of urban development and associated food systems. Throughout Europes cities, different types of urban farming, such as gardens, rooftop or vertical farming, have emerged which could provide impactful responses to these megatrends.
Policy-makers and practitioners urgently need knowledge on the benefits, impacts and risks of urban farming, to help them shape policy and legal frameworks that can foster benefits and mitigate risks of urban farming. FOODCITYBOOST will develop a knowledge-based decision-support tool, consisting of (i) evidence-based indicators of environmental, social and economic performance and impacts of urban farming at farm, regional and EU scale and providing (ii) guidance on policy instruments that foster the development of urban farming. The future potential of urban farming will be assessed in foresight analysis and scenario analysis, as well as development and prototyping of novel forms of urban farming.
FOODCITYBOOST will closely collaborate with >100 stakeholders from 6 case studies, using an approach based on the idea of living labs. This allows us to learn from regions throughout Europe where urban farming thrives and is supported by regional policies. FOODCITYBOOST brings together expertise on social science and humanities, land systems, urban farming, and life cycle assessment, to expand the knowledge base on urban farming from an integrated perspective. We connect to the EFUA and NEW BAUHAUS initiatives to best take stock of recent insights, which allows us to stimulate the development of a varied landscape of urban farming that optimally fulfils the needs of communities and minimises negative impacts and risks.
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1081 HV Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Participants (19)
6708 PB Wageningen
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1000 Sofia
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1007 Riga
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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15374 Muencheberg
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80686 Munchen
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28006 Madrid
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4000 Liege
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75014 PARIS
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91120 Palaiseau
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50-375 Wroclaw
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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570 01 THERMI THESSALONIKI
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1087JV AMSTERDAM
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34839 San Cebrian De Muda Palencia
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1164 Sofia
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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50 252 Wroclaw
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1046 Riga
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.