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Urban agriculture is the practice of growing plant or animal-based products in urban settings such as community gardens and rooftop farms. Esther Sanye-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, and their team surveyed three groups of people in Bologna, Italy-leaders of urban agriculture projects, stakeholders in urban agriculture (e.g., food researchers and urban farming associations), and the general public to compare their views about the extent to which urban agriculture contributes to 25 social or ecological services that the team identified. The survey results show that, on average, project leaders rated urban agriculture as contributing less to .