Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Urban Farm DB summary

This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape and biophilia to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research combining urban agriculture and food literacy. The review suggests that emotional connection with nature benefits human wellbeing and predicts pro-environmental behaviors, and that urban agriculture can improve wellbeing and food security if the next generation has this connection and necessary life skills.