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The land used may be private residential land (use of private pieces of land, balconies, walls, or building roofs), public roadside land, or river banks. Urban farming is practiced for income-earning or food-producing activities. It contributes to food security and food safety in two ways first, it increases the amount of food available to people living in cities, and, second, it allows fresh vegetables and fruits to be made available to urban consumers. A common and efficient form of urban agriculture is the biointensive method. Because it promotes energy-saving local food production, urban and peri-urban agriculture are sustainability practices. Urban agriculture is an industry located within (intra-urban) or on the fringe (peri-urban) of a town, a city or a metropolis, which grows and raises, processes, and distributes a diversity of food and nonfood products, using or reusing largely human and natural resources, products, and services found in and around that urban area, and in turn supplying human and material resources, products, and services largely to that urban area.
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