Urban agriculture and climate change

This chapter thus examines how different types of urban are financed. It reflects the collective work and contributions of a wide array of actors, both academics and practitioners. In cities around the world, urban agriculture, considered here as both intra-urban and peri-urban agriculture, plays an increasingly important role in making cities more sustainable and better fed. The choice of the most appropriate financing mechanisms for urban agriculture guided by the type of urban agriculture such as: subsistence-oriented, market-oriented, leisure and recreation or a combination of them. Financial flows and products for urban farmers from the study case of St. Petersburg, Russia, illustrate the complexity and the richness of financing urban agriculture. The city surveys clearly pointed out the large number of actors providing financial sources and managing funds for urban agriculture. A central element of these funds would be the diversity of their financial sources to include international donations or loans, public resources and private savings, particularly of urban farmers.