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Constructing Organic Food through Urban Agriculture, Community Gardens in Seville

Mario Jordi Sánchez, Antonio Luis Díaz Aguilar

Sustainability

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Through observation and qualitative analysis of community urban gardens in southern Spain (Andalusia), this paper notes that the people who cultivate allotments within these community gardens attribute a wide variety of different meanings to their practices. This plurality of meanings moves beyond the rational-technical dimension of the act of growing, while at the same time redefining the act of consuming organic food, because of its connection with productive and social activities.