ABSTRACT
Urban agriculture has become increasingly popular across the world that includes a variety of activities: community gardens and fruit orchard, home gardens and veggie patches, urban forest, public open spaces, reserves, urban forest and recreational landscaping [1]-[5]. Urban agriculture differs from traditional agriculture as it is integrated into densely populated areas with limited land for food production and recreation space [4]. Urban agriculture can bring diverse vegetative structures back into urban system, support local bio-diversity, and provide ecosystem services across fragmented habitats and spatial levels [6] that in turn can reduce the impact of climatic variability [7]. In addition to food production, urban agriculture can cater for a wide range of urban community needs, including cultivation of vegetables, medicinal plants, spices, mushroom, fruit trees, ornamental plants, and other productive plants [5] [8]. The production of
crop and agricultural goods, within and around cities, with a motivation of personal consumption or income generation [9] [10] thus integrates the local, urban and suburban economic and ecological system [1].
