The rapid development of new technologies and the changing landscape of the online world (e.g., Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of All, cloud-based solutions) provide a unique opportunity for developing automated and robotic systems for urban farming, agriculture, and forestry. Technological advances in machine vision, global positioning systems, laser technologies, actuators, and mechatroni...

Food and nutrition security has been neglected in the planning field for reasons of a lack connection between food perception that agricultural activities have no place modernizing world. However, considering increasing climate change impacts implications on industrialized agriculture, there is clear need to establish shorter, more sustainable production practices supply chains. Urban agricultu...

The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need question desired degree of self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these questions are by no means new periodically entering global research focus policy discussions during periods crises — last time financial crisis resulting price increases 2008 peri-urban agriculture continue be replaced land...