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Biohuertos Comunitarios "Maná Mi Hermosa Huerta" (Comas, Lima)

Comas, Lima, Peru · Operator: 地域住民による共同バイオ菜園グループ(コマス区)

Overview

A community organic garden in Comas, in the largely rainless megacity of Lima, run largely by elderly migrant women — a citizen-led urban farm fostering food security, climate adaptation and community ties.

Citizen participation

A community garden where elderly residents — especially women who migrated from the highlands with farming backgrounds — reconnect with their agricultural heritage, working together to tend the plots and grow and share vegetables.

Operating model

A citizen-led initiative run on residents' collective work and mutual aid, aimed at self-provisioning and sharing food and at fostering neighbourhood connection.

Impact

In a dry urban setting it provides residents with fresh food and a place to belong, drawing on migrants' knowledge and dignity, and stands as an example of Lima's citizen urban agriculture.

Crops

  • 野菜
  • ハーブ

Scale

世界有数の乾燥都市リマ(人口約1,100万人)の北部コマス区で、住民が共同で運営する有機(バイオ)菜園。食料安全保障と気候変動への適応を目的とする

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Biohuertos Comunitarios "Maná Mi Hermosa Huerta" (Comas, Lima) — Urban Farm DB