Affiliation:
1. Universidad Politécnica de Pachuca, Mexico
Abstract
Urban agriculture has made it possible to move vegetable production from rural to densely populated areas, for which it uses different approaches to achieve its mission: food sufficiency. Approaches range from open-sky plantations to controlled environments. Open sky plantations, such as community gardens or roof gardens, offer social rather than economic welfare; it is the controlled environments that offer profitable productions in abandoned spaces or built in a special way. In this chapter, the advantages and disadvantages are mentioned as well as techniques that can improve the performance of this growing area of food development.