🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

도시 농업

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dosi nong-eop

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Urban agriculture/ˈɜːr.bən ˌæɡ.rɪˈkʌl.tʃər/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"도시 농업은 현대 도시의 중요한 지속 가능성 요소입니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas.

    "Urban agriculture includes activities such as rooftop gardening, community farming, and keeping poultry in city limits."
  2. 2

    Agricultural production integrated into the urban economic and ecological system.

    "Many modern cities are incorporating urban agriculture into their master plans to improve local food security."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'urban', derived from the Latin 'urbanus' (pertaining to a city), and 'agriculture', from the Latin 'agricultura' (field cultivation). While cultivation in cities is ancient, the compound term emerged in modern urban planning and environmental science literature during the late 20th century to describe localized food production.

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