Low-cost strategies, through an overall integrated approach, to contribute to climate change mitigation, social inclusion, improve urban resilience.

Urban agriculture is indeed an integrated approach, including the aforementioned topics as it deals with low-carbon economy , Promoting urban resilience, climate change adaptation and risk prevention, Protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency, Promoting social inclusion and combating poverty, Investing in education. Urban agriculture has to be intended as a positive and low-cost strategy to be proposed in the project to contribute to: 1) achieve SDG 11, as urban agriculture is a tool of urban resilience aimed to climate change mitigation, sustainability and urban regeneration, by subtracting areas to soil erosion as well as protecting green areas to mitigate over building; 2) integrate the promotion of peer-to-peer learning and exchanges among civil servants and practitioners towards sustainable urban development; 3) ensure multi-stakeholders and multi-sectoral approaches. In fact, the governance of the urban gardening process includes more policy challenges: reuse of abandoned land, environment protection, social inclusion, innovation and growth as well as stakeholders and citizens engagement and communing in managing heritage and peri-urban areas. Therefore, Urban agriculture is a driving force towards behavioural changes.