Database research record2023·Netherlands
Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures
Koen van der Gaast, J.E. Jansma, Sigrid Wertheim‐Heck
Agriculture and Human Values
Urban Farm DB summary
This study explored how residents of Almere Oosterwold, Netherlands, envision and organize urban agriculture futures, where 50% of plots must be used for urban agriculture. Using futuring, it found that residents have diverse future perspectives and can formulate specific actions but struggle to commit to them, attributing this to temporal dissonance. The paper concludes that both planning and entrepreneurship are necessary for realizing urban food futures.