Our Vision

OUR VISION

Concrete jungles turned into productive paradises

FOODCITYBOOST is on a mission to help set the guidelines and policies to support cityscapes that include urban agriculture as a cornerstone of sustainable development. It's about transforming concrete jungles into productive paradises, where communities thrive alongside nature, and food security is just a rooftop away. Through FOODCITYBOOST, the future of urban living is not just green; it's bursting with flavors, colors, and life! Let's roll up our sleeves and get planting — the urban agriculture revolution has begun!

FOODCITYBOOST will:
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Take an integrated approach in understanding policy, governance, resources power, and the roles of actors play in various types of urban agriculture.

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Address environmental, economic, and social benefits and risk of urban agriculture and its spill-overs to non-urban land.

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Assess the impacts of urban agriculture development on key social, economic, and environmental dimensions capturing spill-over consequences in the urban-rural fringe and their communities.

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Co-design policies that will foster the development of beneficial types of urban agriculture in different regions.

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FOODCITYBOOST will develop a sustainability assessment tool to inventory and analyse environmental, social, and economic impacts of more than 100 urban farming initiatives to develop more than six novel urban farming prototypes. By analysing governance models, mega trend implications, and stakeholder networks from six urban agricultureinitiatives more than 4 pathways for urban farming development will be sythnesised.

It will develop and test 4 specific scenarios in Living Labs, across its Living Labs, including quantification and mapping of benefits and impacts on peri-urban and rural areas.

4 Scenarios

6 Living Labs

Regarding policy FOODCITYBOOST will engage in 4 EU level policy meetings on urban farming, focused on legal frameworks for development, policy change, rural-proofing, and multi-scale governance and it will develop more than 10 policy fact sheets.

4 EU level policy meetings

10 policy fact sheets