The seminal paper explores the importance of food self-sufficiency within urban areas, focusing on the current and potential food self-sufficiency rate in the City Municipality of Ljubljana. Self-sufficiency will be evermore important with respect to the climate crisis and consequential instability in global food production. Cities are the most densely populated areas and therefore create the highest demand for food while having a low self-sufficiency rate, as relatively little land is used for agriculture. Different forms of urban and peri-urban agriculture are presented, partly focusing on innovative urban agriculture, its advantages, and disadvantages. The second part of the analysis focuses on agriculture in the City Municipality of Ljubljana, which consists mostly of peri-urban agriculture and gardening, while innovative agricultural techniques are largely absent. The empirical part consists of a GIS analysis of land use in the City Municipality of Ljubljana. Based on the current land use and chosen restrictive factors for agriculture, a layer of potential agricultural land is calculated. These results are used to assess the obtainable food self-sufficiency rates within the City Municipality of Ljubljana. Apart from the results, the final part also includes a field research of chosen locations within the layer of potential agricultural land.
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