Micro-agriculture and linear systems
Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Alessandra Giannini, Andrea Oldani
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/61
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 122-136 File size 8763 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2012-061021
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With the term micro-agriculture, we mean agriculture on a small scale (as opposed to intensive agriculture and monoculture). If horticulture is the collection of agricultural and agronomic practices aimed at the production of vegetables, urban gardening being one aspect of this, then micro-agriculture is the collection of ‘small scale’ agricultural practices, including horticulture (as in the case of urban vegetable gardens), fruit-growing or flower-growing. Micro-agriculture is a landscape: the collection of garden plots, and natural and artificial materials used define a unified yet diversified whole, different from the traditional agricultural landscape in its reduced scale, biological richness, the variety of materials used and the heterogeneous landscape created. Land use practices generated spontaneously can lead to projects for landscaping and reorganizing marginal areas, and the definition of a new linear landscape.
Keywords: Micro-agriculture; landscape; open space
Alessandra Giannini, Andrea Oldani, Micro-agricoltura e sistemi lineari in "TERRITORIO" 61/2012, pp 122-136, DOI: 10.3280/TR2012-061021