Using the Smart Cities Infrastructure for Urban Farming and Z-Farming

Urban agriculture has made it possible to move vegetable production from rural to densely populated areas, for which it uses different approaches to achieve its mission: food sufficiency. Approaches range from open-sky plantations to controlled environments. Open sky plantations, such as community gardens or roof gardens, offer social rather than economic welfare; it is the controlled environments that offer profitable productions in abandoned spaces or built in a special way. In this chapter, the advantages and disadvantages are mentioned as well as techniques that can improve the performance of this growing area of food development.