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New study reveals scale of cropping in and around cities

A new study released by the International Water Management Institute documents the area of land under cultivation in and around the world's cities. The study, which was published in the November 2014 issue of the journal Environmental Research Letters, is the first global assessment to quantify urban and peri-urban croplands and document the resources they consume. The authors of the paper stated that their goal was to highlight the proximity of farming to cities in the quest for urban food security and sustainable development, given the largely rural focus of most agricultural research and policy work. In addition, they wanted to spotlight the starkly different view of urban farming one finds in the developed and developing world. The study found 456 million hectares—an area about the size of the European Union—under cultivation in and around cities.

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