Rome (ITALY) - Urban Agriculture spatial dataset (years 2007 and 2013)

Motivation

The data in this dataset is a spatial inventory of urban agriculture (UA) carried out in the city of Rome (Italy) (Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA)). UA areas where identified with a multi-step and iterative procedure by using different web-mapping tools, especially multitemporal Google Earth images, and ancillary data such as Google Street View and Bing Maps.

License

Creative Commons CC-BY

Disclaimer

Despite our best efforts to validate the data, some information may be incorrect.

Description of the dataset

Typologies of UA

• Residential garden: Private parcel near single houses (e.g. backyard), villas, buildings, industrial and commercial activities, generally managed by property owners. Cultivation is diversified ranging from leafy vegetables to herbs and fruit trees. Production is intended for self-consumption and/or for hobby purposes.
• Community garden: A large area subdivided into multipleplots managed individually (i.e. allotment) or collectively by a group of people. Crop production is intended for self-consumption. Land is assigned by the Municipality; several cases of land cultivated without authorization are also common.
• Urban farm: Parcel managed by professional farmers with an intensive and an advanced cropping system. The cultivation can be specialized or oriented to high diversity vegetables. The production is intended for market. The mapping procedure focus exclusively on horticulture, vineyard, olive groves and orchard.
• Institutional garden: Parcel managed by institutions or organizations like schools, religious center, prisons and non-profit organizations. The production is generally intended for self-consumption and less frequently for trade. Several gardens in this category are intended for social purposes (e.g. recreation,education, etc.).
• Illegal garden: Parcel isolated, cultivated without authorization organized and managed individually or by a few people. Localization occurs on unused or abandoned areas owned by public bodies or private subjects. The production is intended for self-consumption.

Land use typologies

• Horticulture: annual crops generally seed sown in spring or summer (tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers).
• Vineyard: grape vines grown in order to produce wine or table grape.
• Olive groves: olive trees grown in order to produce olive oil or table olives.
• Orchards: mixed trees such as orange, stone fruit, pome fruit, olive trees.
• Mixed crops: an area grown with a mix of horticulture crops and fruit trees, not divisible.

Credit

Pulighe G., Lupia F. (2016) Mapping spatial patterns of urban agriculture in Rome (Italy) using Google Earth and web-mapping services. Land Use Policy 59(2016) 49-58.

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