Urban agriculture is the growing of plants and raising of animals in and around urban or peri-urban areas.
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Peri-urban
//ˌpɛɹ.iˈɝ.bən//
Synonyms for "peri-urban"
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Translations
8 translations across 5 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- طَرِيق فَرْعِيّ adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
Finnish
4 entries- kehys adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
- reuna adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
- reunus adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
- ympärys adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
French
1 entries- périurbain adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
Greek
1 entries- περιαστικός adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
Swedish
1 entries- stadsnära adj (immediately adjoining an urban area)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Although Lusaka is the smallest town in Lusaka Province and one of the smallest in the nation, it has the biggest population and largest growth rates, and there is pressure from in-migration and growth in peri-urban settlements.
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In this respect, Yuxi represents an intermediate case, between the encompassing model of residence-based citizenship being created in peri-urban communities around Changsha and the gender exclusivity of Fuzhou villages.
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“We would expect peri-urban land to be more fertile than average land, as mankind tends to settle where crops can be produced,” says Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin, and principal author on the paper.
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