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Assessing the potential to scale-up urban agriculture in the Global North.

Urban agriculture (UA) is frequently promoted as a pathway to improve urban sustainability, food security, and resilience, yet cross-city evidence on its scalable, system-wide impacts remains limited and methodologically inconsistent. We assess the theoretical scaling potential and food–energy–water (FEW) metabolism implications of expanding low-tech UA across five Global North cities, —London, New York City, Paris, Dortmund, and Gorzów Wielkopolski—using a harmonized two-part framework. The results provide a transferable, cross-city methodology and identify policy-relevant leverage points—especially enabling home gardening, securing land tenure, supporting new farmers or gardeners, and pairing expansion with composting and water-harvesting practices—to design context-sensitive UA scaling strategies. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1muYocUG5e8ki. Further current publications can be found here.