{"id":721,"date":"2016-07-28T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=721"},"modified":"2016-07-28T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:20:39","slug":"rooftop-urban-vegetables-better-than-farm-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2016\/07\/28\/rooftop-urban-vegetables-better-than-farm-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop urban vegetables better than farm vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-722\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-722 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Liu_et_al-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Liu_et_al-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/07\/Liu_et_al.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright LIU et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Farmland is increasingly being polluted by pesticides and also by vehicles, notably near urban areas. Since pollution is concentrated at low atmospheric levels, cultivating crops on rooftops may produce high-quality food. Agronomists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-016-0378-6\">Liu et al. <\/a>cultivated leafy greens in Guangzhou, China and found that rooftop grown vegetables were competitive in cost and quality compared to high-end market vegetables.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-016-0378-6'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmland is increasingly being polluted by pesticides and also by vehicles, notably near urban areas. Since pollution is concentrated at low atmospheric levels, cultivating crops on rooftops may produce high-quality food. Agronomists Liu et al. cultivated leafy greens in Guangzhou, China and found that rooftop grown vegetables were competitive in cost and quality compared to &#8230; <a title=\"Rooftop urban vegetables better than farm vegetables\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2016\/07\/28\/rooftop-urban-vegetables-better-than-farm-vegetables\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rooftop urban vegetables better than farm vegetables\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}