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The Potential and Significance of Urban Agriculture on the Basis of the Ruhr Metropolis and the Upper Silesian Metropolis

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  • Sroka, Wojciech
  • Pölling, Bernd

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The paper attempts to evaluate the potential and importance of agriculture in the two largest (post)industrial metropolitan areas of Europe. It has been demonstrated that urban agriculture constitutes an important spatial component of studied urban organisms, as almost 40% of these consist of agricultural land. Analysis of chosen characteristics of agriculture in the researched metropolitan areas explicitly shows that their agricultural potential is comparable to the overall regions where they are located. This mainly concerns the average size of farms, the employment ratio and the intensity of both animal and plant production. The studies also led to the conclusion that, in spite of very similar natural environments, agriculture in the Ruhr Metropolis is characterized by significantly higher production potential than agriculture in the Upper Silesian Metropolis.

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  • Sroka, Wojciech & Pölling, Bernd, 2015. "The Potential and Significance of Urban Agriculture on the Basis of the Ruhr Metropolis and the Upper Silesian Metropolis," Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, vol. 15(30), pages 1-14, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:polpwa:230869
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.230869
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    5. Wojewodzic, Tomasz & Sroka, Wojciech, 2018. "Commercial farms in metropolitan areas in Poland: changes in production factor resources," Village and Agriculture (Wieś i Rolnictwo), Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiR PAN), Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, vol. 181(4), December.
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    7. Sroka, Wojciech & Wąs, Adam & Pölling, Bernd, 2016. "Development Strategies of Urban Farms in Developed Countries on the Example of Ruhr Metropolis (Germany) and Upper Silesia Metropolis (Poland)," Problems of Agricultural Economics / Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej 253700, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI).
    8. Wojciech Sroka & Bernd Pölling & Tomasz Wojewodzic & Miroslaw Strus & Paulina Stolarczyk & Olga Podlinska, 2019. "Determinants of Farmland Abandonment in Selected Metropolitan Areas of Poland: A Spatial Analysis on the Basis of Regression Trees and Interviews with Experts," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-23, May.

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