Urban farming for resilient and sustainable food production in urban areas

Important results from the project

** Denna text är maskinöversatt ** The overall aim of this project has been to review and assess the development and spread of urban farming systems in Stockholm in order to identify competitive, resilient, sustainable and robust food systems. The research has focused on real and planned case studies. We have focused on both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze indoor and outdoor urban farming technologies, such as business models and sustainability and feasibility to examine innovation and increased capacity building in the urban farming sector.

Expected long term effects

The project has resulted in a number of collaborative studies with urban farming systems. This has resulted in a large number of master theses, scientific articles, reports, presentations, seminars, and appearances in local news and SVT Vetenskap. The results have also helped urban farming actors to understand more about their sustainability and critically examine their business models and innovation. This information has been important in their future plans and has help to generated collaborations and a number of spin-off projects.

Approach and implementation

The project has been conducted with urban farming actors and has included a number of qualitative and quantitative methods. This has included resilience analyses, life cycle, energy, and sustainability analyses, business model canvas analyses, critical studies of innovation ecosystems and business models, and studies of their sustainability and life cycle management. These have been conducted with urban farming actors in Stockholm and other regions in Sweden to study these systems in more depth and learn about their challenges and possibilities.

External links

Internal page at IVL for the project A page I made for collecting outputs from ongoing projects (this project being one of them)