Hur mycket kan hållbar stadsodling bidra till livsmedelsförsörjningen? : En studie i Malmö stad

Sammanfattning: As cities grow, the barrier to the landscape becomes greater and our relationship with agriculture is getting smaller. This study examines how urban agriculture, which is a contributing factor for sustainable urban development, can be made more efficient with the help of intercropping, and the City of Malmö's potential for food supply with the help of urban agriculture. A cultivation guide has been designed, based on a survey, with the help of intercropping which streamlines cultivation in a limited area. If the entire leased area for urban agriculture in the city of Malmö follows the cultivation guide, 696.9 tons of vegetables can be produced. This saturates 1,58 percent of Malmö's population with vegetables, and in terms of surface area, just over 1 percent of Malmö's green areas are used for the cultivation guide. The calculations show that 88,1 square meters of arable land issufficient for the production of vegetables and potato for one person. Which is an area that is only 60 percent of the area that is needed globally on average. This is partly due to the fact that intercropping and other optimized combinations of crops are not applied to any great extent globally, and partly because the data base for the yield in these calculations comes from cultivation where soil and climate are more favorable than the global average.