Developing a tool to evaluate the sustainability of intra-urban farms
Résumé
An increasing urbanisation is now followed by a developing growth of urban agriculture supported by political frameworks in France. Urban agriculture projects have an exponential development with very diversified technical and business models from low to high tech, purely productive to multifunctional. This type of agriculture aims at sensitizing citizens to agriculture, link city-dwellers to the countryside and claims to participate to the sustainable development of cities. However, the current models established to evaluate farm sustainability are not adapted to the intra-urban context. Our goal is to build a tool to evaluate the sustainability of intra-urban farms, with two purposes: 1/ to provide a tool for project leaders allowing them to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their project; 2/ to produce a tool destined to enable surface providers to compare answers to their call for projects. A participatory approach was chosen to build this tool. A first panel meeting determined the objectives of this tool and a list of criteria for the agro-environmental, socio-territorial and economic dimensions. These objectives and criteria were then submitted to the approval of urban farmers and surface provider via an online survey. In parallel, an adaptation of existing environmental indicators is under way as well as a search for adapted sociological and economic indicators. Some indicators have been identified in the literature and shall be submitted to a large panel of urban farmers and surface provider to evaluate their pertinence and feasibility.
Domaines
Sciences agricoles
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