The FEW-meter - an integrative model to measure and improve urban agriculture, shifting it towards circular urban metabolism.

该项目旨在：建立一个真正全面的系统，以了解现有类型的都市农业(UA)对城市可持续发展的贡献；衡量与UA相关的农产品数量以及相关的能源和水的使用；扩大关于可能的健康风险的知识，并利用这一系统确定和确定在食物/能源/水(LESS)关系方面提高UA绩效的方法。这将通过从跨学科的角度进行广泛的案例分析来实现，其中包括城市粮食生产和消费系统的关键因素。该项目的目标包括：开发一个创新和全面的系统(几个表头)，从三者的角度衡量普遍使用情况；建立一个有助于收集数据的种植者在线社区；根据普遍使用程度在城市范围内的扩大，制定最佳利用城市资源的情景；以及开发数字工具，支持城市种植者优化其农业实践的城市新陈代谢。因此，该项目有助于城市向可持续发展转变。

The project aims to: create a truly comprehensive system to understand the contribution of existing types of Urban Agriculture (UA) to the sustainable development of cities; measure the quantity of produce as well as related energy and water usage associated with UA; expand knowledge about possible health risks, and use this system to ascertain and identify approaches to advance the performance of UA in terms of Food / Energy / Water (FEW) nexus. This will be done through extensive case study analysis from a transdisciplinary perspective, which encompasses key factors of urban food production and consumption systems. Resulting data will be elaborated through modelling of flows (of energy, water and other resources), with a methodology also based on urban metabolism.Objectives of the project include: the development of an innovative and comprehensive system (FEW-meter) to measure UA from a FWE nexus perspective; the establishment of an on-line community of growers that will help gather data; the development of scenarios of optimal use of urban resources, based on an expansion of UA at city scale; and the generation of digital tools to support urban growers optimising the urban metabolism of their agricultural practices. The project thus contributes to the transformation of cities towards sustainability.