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Abstract
Drawing on Assemblage Theory (AT) and Social-Ecological Systems (SES), we present a multi-phase framework for Urban Agriculture (UA) that incorporates heterogeneity, adaptation, resilience, and fluidity to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This pathway evolves through phases of relational development, system productivity, stabilization, and adaptability, providing a systematic yet flexible approach to enhancing urban-rural connections. We also examine essential research considerations, encompassing relational adaptive governance, stabilization and resilience, holism, and systems thinking. Our framework offers an interdisciplinary guide for policy and planning to facilitate transformative change, advancing sustainable development in urban and rural systems.
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Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.