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the European Parliament Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF): POLICY DEPARTMENT
Annette Piorr, Ingo Zasada, Alexandra STRUCTURAL AND COHESION POLICIES
in the area of Structural & Doernberg, Felix Zoll, Wiebke Ramme
Cohesion Policies with a
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Urban and Peri-urban
Agriculture in the EU
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IP/B/AGRI/2017-085
How UPUA provide multiple
PE 617.468 April 2018
benefits for society and
environment:
specific policy measures needed

A study commissioned by the Committee

for Agriculture and Rural Development
 MAIN
CONCLUSIONS
• The diversity of UPUA requires more
political recognition. Policies from
different areas need to be better
coordinated and tailored to specific
UPUA conditions in order to fully
exploit its manifold benefits.
• Local land use, planning and zoning for
urban containment and farmland
preservation is a prerequisite for the
development of UPUA.
• CAP specific policy measures and
instruments can be considered in order
to improve of the economic viability of
UPUA and enable it to compete with
other sectors on land and labour
markets
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UPUA consists of food production in and
around urban areas, ranging from leisure to
commercial activities. UPUA developed from
a means of self-supply in times of crises to a
multi-functional land use resulting in
manifold benefits on a social, economic,
ecologic and cultural level. Business
strategies such as diversification,
differentiation and specialization depict
promising opportunities to create economic
value from the multi-functionality of UPUA.
Until now, the Common Agricultural Policy
(CAP) does not match the specific needs of
UPUA due to their particular characteristics in
terms of actors, scale, diversity and location
in urban areas and their surroundings.
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This study presents a state of the art
overview on urban Agriculture and
peri-urban agriculture (UPUA), the diversity
of phenomena, motivations, its distinctive
features and benefits. The study shows the
need for improved integration of
UPUA into the policy agenda across sectors,
domains and governance levels.
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The full study is available here:
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