This paper aims to examine the development of urban agriculture, assess its current status and challenges, and explore its potential. Since the mid-1990s, expectations for urban agriculture have grown, with urban planning increasingly integrating agriculture with a focus on local production for local consumption and citizen participation. Going forward, urban planning may need to expand and adapt, leveraging the proximity to consumers.
With this in mind, this paper presents three key issues: agricultural use, civic use, and welfare use of urban farmland. Specifically, agricultural use and civic use are qualitatively enhanced, while welfare use is introduced as a new role for urban agriculture. These aspects are mutually complementary and can contribute to the preservation of urban farmland and the creation of sustainable cities.
Urban agriculture is not merely a local trend seen only in cities, but a universal practice that offers important suggestions for the future of farming villages and Japanese agriculture. We look forward to a broader debate on the social development of urban agriculture.
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