Latest international directives indicate the need for sustainable development, linking socio-economic and environmental aspects, to reach the goals set by Agenda 2030. In this context, peri-urban agriculture can represent the opportunity to increase cities’ sustainability, improving their liveability level, fulfilling a crucial social part since it assures new sources of job opportunities and territorial requalification. This study presents a peri-urban requalification experience, conducted in Milan, Italy, where, within the European funded project OpenAgri, eight agri-food start-ups began their activities in a peri-urban area at the southern gates of the city. The study aims to assess and evaluate these start-ups’ sustainability using the Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA), which considers four sustainability pillars: Good governance, economic resilience, environmental integrity and social well-being. The application of SAFA indicators to the eight start-ups revealed their positive aspects and some limitations, typical of some not structured enterprises. The research describes a scalable and replicable example of peri-urban agriculture’s potentiality in solving environmental, social and economic issues and tests FAO’s SAFA framework, which is still unexplored in this sustainability assessment context.

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在城郊农业背景下评估农业食品初创企业的可持续性

最新的国际指令表明需要可持续发展，将社会经济和环境方面联系起来，以实现《 2030年议程》设定的目标。在这种情况下，城郊农业可以为增加城市的可持续性，改善城市的宜居水平提供机会，履行重要的社会职责，因为它确保了新的工作机会和领土重新资格。这项研究提供了在意大利米兰进行的城市边缘资格认证的经验，在欧洲资助的OpenAgri项目中，有8家农业食品初创企业在城市南部大门的城市边缘地区开始了活动。该研究旨在使用粮食和农业系统的可持续性评估（SAFA）评估和评估这些初创企业的可持续性，该评估考虑了四个可持续性支柱：善政，经济适应力，环境完整性和社会福祉。SAFA指标在八个初创企业中的应用显示了它们的积极方面和一些局限性，这是一些非结构化企业所特有的。该研究描述了城郊农业在解决环境，社会和经济问题方面的潜力的可扩展且可复制的示例，并测试了粮农组织的SAFA框架，在这种可持续性评估的背景下，该框架仍未得到开发。