Panama City school and community gardens programme (Alcaldía de Panamá)
Panama City, Panama · Operator: パナマ市役所 環境管理局（Dirección de Gestión Ambiental）レジリエンス・気候変動部門
Overview
A school- and community-garden programme run by the Municipality of Panama through the Resilience and Climate Change unit of its Directorate of Environmental Management, announced by the city in September 2024. It teaches children and residents small-scale agriculture and works to fold growing fruit, vegetables and herbs into daily routines. Its stated aims are food security, healthy and sustainable eating habits, and community cooperation.
Citizen participation
Aimed at children, school students and local residents. Participants learn hands-on small-scale agriculture such as planting seedlings, and grow fruit, vegetables and herbs. In schools it is tied to lessons; in neighbourhoods it is run as a place for residents to work together.
Operating model
A public programme run by Panama City's Directorate of Environmental Management (Resilience and Climate Change unit), which provides technical guidance and materials from the municipal budget.
Impact
An example from a Central American capital where the city hall itself — rather than a provincial or national agriculture ministry — runs school and community gardens. It places the gardens under the environment department's 'resilience and climate change' remit, an instructive way of framing urban farming as climate adaptation rather than food policy.
Land tenure
A municipal programme using city school grounds and neighbourhood public space.
Crops
- 野菜
- 果物
- ハーブ
Scale
市内の学校と地域コミュニティに小規模な菜園を展開する。菜園数・面積は公表されていない
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