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  • Publication | 2023
Urban agriculture during economic crisis: Lessons from Cuba, Sri Lanka and Ukraine

Highlights:

Economic crises take different forms and occur for various
reasons, such as political conflicts and pandemics. What all
these crises have in common is that they cause disruption to
rural-urban food supply chains, resulting in food shortages for
the urban poor, with the most direct impact being an increase
in food prices. It is within this challenging context that we
present empirical examples of the role of urban agriculture.