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Database research record2025·United Kingdom

From crisis to opportunity: exploring urban food growing in the UK during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chris Blythe, Silvio Caputo, Michael Hardman, Paul Milbourne, Victoria Schoen

Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)

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This chapter examines the impact of urban food growing on individual, household, and community resilience, well-being, environment, and local food systems in the UK during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on survey and research data. It discusses the potential role of urban food growing in post-pandemic food security, environment, health, and society, and considers how "crisis gardening" experiences are leading to calls for new approaches to urban food growing in the UK.