Urban farming activities are important because they supply food resources to urban communities, greening urban areas as well as the desire to achieve community sustainability n the city. Increasing concerns over food security, unemployment, growing urbanization and limited space availability has generated interest towards urban farming. Urban farming is fast catching in Malaysia with many young people taking it up to grow their own vegetables in their backyards. Considering the potential of urban farming as a promising career path among youth, this study aims to examine factors influencing graduates intentions to engage in urban farming from the lens of theory of planned behaviour (TPB). To date, very few empirical studies have been conducted on graduates intention to engage in urban farming, particularly. The future study hopefully can contributes to the knowledge and understanding of the importance urban farming in a country, in addition to being able to further expand studies in aspects of urban farming in Malaysia. This study can also contribute in terms of recommendations to the improvement of internal policies urban planning, i.e. taking into account agriculture as an activity that needs to be preserved and continued in city.
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