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Database research record2018·United Kingdom (London)

London’s Urban Agriculture: Building Community through Social Innovation

Les Levidow

AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)

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This research examines the role of 'community' in London's food initiatives and how it stimulates congenial activities through social innovation. These initiatives involve forms of social innovation such as enhancing socio-political capabilities, fulfilling unsatisfied needs, and redefining societal problems. London's food initiatives face challenges in combining these diverse aims and activities.