Vol. 10, Special Issue 12 (2021)

Author(s):
Anju Abraham and Dr. R Arunachalam

Abstract:
Increased population density and urbanisation pushed the city dwellers to adopt an eco- innovative way for food system which could provide nutritional security to them. The concept of urban farming emerged as an economically feasible solution which ensures food justice to urban population. Cities are always complex and considered as poor in the case of resource availability for farming. And the major constraints include, space, labour, time and water. These diminishing factors could decide the structure and components in the farm. The analysis on the resource utilisation and system diversity could help to formulate a sustainable city development plan. The study conducted in two major corporations of Kerala, i.e. Kochi and Calicut. And the results showed that, even though the farmers had resource constraints, they could include different components like horticulture crops, cereals and livestock rearing.