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Arzaville

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City of Arzaville

It is integral to ensure that our urban centers are able to achieve the Sustainable Development

Goal 16 while growing. This is important in that, it ensures that these cities make critical and

large steps towards the other SDGs. The SDG 2, Zero Hunger, is the most significant. Therefore,

urban centers need to contribute in their ways so that they can ensure that they can ensure food

resilience to its populations.

The city of Arzaville and other urban centers are increasingly becoming an expensive leaving

area which is characterized by urban sprawl and amplified travel distance. Additionally, there

has been an increase in the carbon footprint, an increase in energy consumption, and complicated

network distribution.

All these aspects are seen to lead to a higher food prices and greater food wastage. Neither of

these aspects is beneficial to the poor living in Arzaville city. In this essay, we shall be

discussing a short management plan with food resilience measures which will help the City of

Arzaville in ensuring that there is adequate food at affordable prices to its urbanites.

Suggestive Measures

Urban agriculture is important to the city of Arzaville in that it offer innovative and sustainable

solutions to the improvement of food security in the city. Additionally, this approach helps in

mitigating the environmental challenges in the city. Arzaville being located in the coastal area

and receiving a relatively warm temperature, urban agriculture would be ideal in that, the farms

will have a continuous supply of water and that the UV light from the sun will be provided for

the food crops to grow (Siegner, Sowerwine, & Acey, 2018).

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In the event urban agriculture is formalized as a land use, it has the potential to change the entire

urban and agricultural landscape, thereby increasing access to healthy food options in Arzaville

city. This helps reduce the environmental impact of feeding the community.

Another suggestive measure is smart agriculture. There is various wealth in terms of technology

in Arzaville where one of the top professions is technical services. Many urban farms are already

“smart” where they use sensors and data to tailor everything from lighting to crop nutrition

(Khoa, Man, Nguyen, Nguyen, & Nam, 2019). This is true in large farms that dominate the entire

converted warehouse and also in small farms. Arzaville can take advantage of under-utilized

spaces in the community for this project.

Sustainability Measures

These are long term measures that Arzaville city need to consider. For instance, Arzaville need

to reconnect and reconfigure food networks and flows in its space for providing more sustainable

food system. Therefore, the city must shape the re-setting of the origin of the input of food flows,

intermediary actors related to these flows, and the distribution channels that provide food access

to consumers.

Furthermore, Arzaville City needs to have effective markets. It is seen that the functioning of

these markets depends on the available offer of food products. Also, they depend on the way the

products are sourced. Thus, the origin of food sourcing relates to an energy and food urban

nexus.
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References

Khoa, T. A., Man, M. M., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, V., & Nam, N. H. (2019). Smart agriculture

using IoT multi-sensors: A novel watering management system. Journal of Sensor and

Actuator Networks, 8(3), 45. doi:10.3390/jsan8030045

Siegner, A., Sowerwine, J., & Acey, C. (2018). Does urban agriculture improve food security?

Examining the nexus of food access and distribution of urban produced foods in the

United States: A systematic review. Sustainability, 10(9), 2988.

doi:10.3390/su10092988