Urban farming is a way to ensure food security for human consumption, particularly for urban people who have limited space for agricultural activity. Despite the challenges, urban farming practices have the potential to play a critical role in sustainable food systems and food security. Urban farming has a different purpose of cultivating, such as for sustainability, entrepreneurship, a better life, greater community and as a medium for learning and exploring. This includes numerous benefits including increased access to fresh produce, reduced food transportation costs, and improved community health and well-being. Additionally, it can help mitigate climate change's effects by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting biodiversity, and improvising conventional planting methods. Recently, urban farming has gained more popularity and the adoption among communities keeps increasing for different reasons. Concerning this, the study aims to explore the factors specifically knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) that influence the adoption of urban farming practices. There are a few methods in relation to KAP that the researcher focuses on; some studies explain each factor individually, while others as the overall KAP Model as a holistic model. Therefore, this research can further understand the KAP model (as a whole concept) towards the adoption of urban farming practices. This eventually expands more studies on many aspects of urban farming practices and also contribute to the recommendations and improvements in term of the execution of urban farming among the community and urban dwellers.
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