GUIDELINES FOR MUNICIPAL POLICYMAKING ON URBAN AGRICULTURE Urban Agriculture: A Tool for Sustainable Municipal Development
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چکیده
Urban agriculture (UA) is practiced inside (intraurban) or on the outskirts (periurban) of a town or a city. While it focuses on raising food and animal crops, it includes recycling household waste and wastewater for agricultural purposes, the processing and distribution of different food and non-food products using human and material resources, products, and services that are found in the same or surrounding areas. In turn, UA supplies that area with resources and materials.
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