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HOUSEHOLD GARDENING AS PREFERENCE ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY RESILIENCE DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19
2021Irina Mildawani, Arief Rahman · The Journal of Synergy Landscape · Indonesia
A survey of 148 respondents in the Jabodetabek region of Indonesia, conducted via Google Form between July and December 2020, examined household gardening preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with activities before and predicted after it. Using qualitative content analysis (QCA), the study assessed emotional well-being and explored variation in garden type — vegetable versus ornamental plants, community versus household gardens, and who was involved. Gardening was seen as a favorable activity generating happy family time, with respondents wanting to continue it after the pandemic, but landscape architects had not yet been chosen as gardeners when professional assistance was needed.
CommunityHealthWelfareURBAN FARMING BERBASIS ECO-MASJID DI KAMPUNG BRAJAN, TAMANTIRTO, KASIHAN, BANTUL
2021Triyono Triyono, Siti Aisyah, Firman Mansir · Prosiding Seminar Nasional Program Pengabdian Masyarakat · Indonesia
This community-outreach report describes a project at Baitunnafi Mosque in Kampung Brajan, Tamantirto village (Kasihan district, Bantul regency), a fast-growing suburban area on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The mosque's roughly 1,500 m² grounds included about 500 m² of unused vacant land. The project involved coordination and religious-education sessions on using land for vegetable and fish cultivation as a healthy family food source, vegetable-growing training, and a demonstration of tarpaulin-pond technology for catfish farming. The mosque congregation, the target group, participated enthusiastically across the activity stages; the report states the urban farming activity addressed environmental problems while increasing the food supply and nutrition available to the congregation and surrounding community.
CommunityFood educationInovasi Gerakan Gelar Gulung sebagai Solusi Pemenuhan Kebutuhan Pangan Mandiri di Kota Yogyakarta
2021Farida Rahmawati, Ana Chusniatul Hidayah, Aida Nur Faizah, Ahmad Falahuddin, Muhammad Adryan Okuputra · Journal of Social Development Studies · Indonesia
This study examined the actions and innovations of Gelar Gulung, a citizen movement in Tegalweru Village, Tegalrejo District, Yogyakarta City, Indonesia, aimed at meeting residents' food needs independently during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a descriptive method with qualitative data gathered through observation, interviews, and literature review, the study identified five categories of action: (a) participatory mapping of self-reliant residents, (b) food emergency response, (c) social action for economic independence, (d) livelihood network building, and (e) urban farming (food-stock gardening). The report states these activities received a positive response from stakeholders, having increased food security during the pandemic and supported long-term economic independence.
CommunityFood sovereignty & justiceWelfareA Proposal of a Mobile Application Service for Integrated Garden Management to Improve Urban Agriculture Experience: focusing on Nowon-gu public urban gardens
2021Eun Yu, Yu Bin Yang, Seo Yoon Park, Eun Bin Jeon, Chae Rim Oh · Journal of Basic Design & Art · South Korea
Focusing on public community garden plots along Nowon-gu's Gyeongchun Line Forest Trail in Seoul, South Korea, this study used a Research Through Design methodology to develop a mobile application for integrated garden plot management. Surveying stakeholders, including potential users, connected to garden plots and weekend farms to identify problems and opportunity areas, the project developed service ideas and features including crop-management functions, a farm-tool rental function, and a community function allowing garden-plot users in a given area to communicate and help one another.
CommunityDigital agricultureTINGKAT PARTISIPASI ANGGOTA PKK BALAS KLUMPRIK PADA PROGRAM HIDROPONIK BAGI SEMUA
2021Dwiyana Anela Kurniasari, Siti Alimah, Agus Subhan Prasetyo, Nur Hafif · Prosiding Seminar Nasional Gender & Inklusi Sosial UWP · Indonesia
A study analyzed participation levels among PKK (Family Welfare and Empowerment) members in RT05/RW06 of the Balasklumprik area in Wiyung district, Surabaya, Indonesia, in a hydroponics training program conducted by the Agribusiness Study Program of Universitas Wijaya Putra in July 2020. Participation rates were 100% for seedling-raising training, 80% for hydroponic nutrition training, 86.67% success in the first pakcoy harvest, and 73.33% of members continued hydroponic cultivation after the training; descriptive analysis concluded that PKK members participated well in each activity of the hydroponics program.
CommunityFood educationWelfare都市農業経営における常雇導入の意義と特徴―首都圏特定市を対象とした事例分析―
2021Shingo YOSHIDA · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · Japan
Against a backdrop in which revision of the Productive Green Land Act and a new law for leasing urban farmland enabled existing farmers to expand and new entrants to begin farming in metropolitan areas, this study used survey data from 317 farms in cities of the Tokyo metropolitan area, plus semi-structured interviews at two fruit farms in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, to examine the significance and characteristics of introducing regular employees on peri-urban farms. The survey showed that the number of regular employees varied by farm developmental stage, distinguishing farms with only one employee from those with two or more in terms of management capability and social networking; interviews indicated that even among similarly sized farms, differences in farm objectives and family-management thinking affected the presumed role of regular employees and future human resource plans.
EconomicsPeri-urban agricultureCommunityEffect of Plant growing Structures and Media on Yield of Tomato in the Rooftop Garden
2021Most. Tania Akter, Mohammad Mahbub Islam, Parvin Akter Bithy, Suraya Parvin, Md. Ehtasham Bari · Asian Journal of Biology · Bangladesh
A factorial trial at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University's rooftop garden in Dhaka, Bangladesh (October 2017-March 2018) tested two growing structures (plastic pot, earthen pot) and six growing media in a completely randomized design with four replications. Plastic pots produced the most flower clusters, flowers, fruit length and fruit breadth per plant, with maximum yield of 1.69 kg/plant. Medium M5 (80% soil + 10% cowdung + 10% vermicompost + inorganic fertilizer) gave the highest yield at 2.17 kg/plant, and the plastic pot with M5 combination reached 2.15 kg/plant.
Food educationCommunityANALYSIS OF USING MODERN PLANT CULTIVATION UNITS IN CITY FARMING AND ITS DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
2021M. N. Erokhin, D. M. Skorokhodov, A N Skorokhodova, ALEKSANDR A. ANISIMOV, Roman Potemkin · Agroinženeriâ · Global
This review discusses modern modular plant-cultivation devices for city farming, identifying technological factors, plant parameters, ambient temperature, air humidity and lighting as the main variables governing crop growth under intensive cultivation systems that avoid plant-protection chemicals. It argues that separately developing cultivation technology and equipment for each crop's agrotechnical requirements, and standardizing modular unit design and manufacturing, would reduce design work, shorten design time, improve equipment quality and reliability, and lower production costs when modules are manufactured in series. No experimental data are presented.
Digital agricultureCommunity“The Garden Is Life and the Garden Is Death”: Radical Growers and the Struggle for Liberation
2021Kathryn Jackson · Environmental Justice · United States
Drawing on growing spaces in Camden, NJ, and Philadelphia, PA, this study applies a Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ) framework to examine how radical urban growing spaces contribute to the struggle for Black liberation amid state-sanctioned racial violence, environmental racism, and COVID-19-related health disparities and food apartheid. It identifies two findings: (1) growers create space that confronts and rectifies the violence of antiblack racism, and (2) redevelopment and white space act as a form of violence that undercuts the work of Black liberation.
CommunityFood sovereignty & justiceFarmer Perspectives on Livelihoods Within Community Supported Agriculture
2021Mark Paul · Econstor (Econstor) · United States
In-depth interviews with community supported agriculture (CSA) farmers in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, United States, examined their livelihoods. CSA farmers earned more farm income than other US farms and other farms in the region, but their earnings remained far below the median national household income. Despite this income shortfall, CSA farming provided non-market social, ecological and economic benefits tied to feeding the community rather than producing for mass markets, which farmers described as a significant source of well-being.
Economic viabilityCSA & TeikeiCommunityEconomicsFood miles & supply chainPotential and pitfalls of citizen science with children: Reflections on Pollinators in the Playground project
2021Kit Prendergast, Amelie M. Vanderstock, Heather Neilly, Catherine E. Ross, Vanessa Pirotta, Patrick Tegart · Austral Ecology · Australia
A reflection on a citizen science project in which five early-career and PhD female researchers guided school-age children across five schools to build artificial flowers, install them on school ovals, and record over repeated 10-minute observations how flower colour (yellow vs. blue) and configuration (isolated, clumped adjacent, clumped mixed-colour, clumped single-colour) affected the number and taxa of visiting insects. The project achieved a low-cost, engaging format and exposure to female STEM role models, but the authors report constraints including having to run it in a season made suboptimal by fixed school curricula, confounding of results caused by the children's own observations, and an inability to verify the collected data.
Methodological critiqueFood educationPollinatorsCommunityWelfareWhite Hill FarmDesert farming, improving nutrition and communication between Israeli Jews and Bedouin in Southern Israel
2021Norbert Goldfield · · Israel
A chapter on an HATD-funded joint farming initiative between Israeli Jews and Bedouin in southern Israel, covering the geographic setting, the organizations involved, the initiative's activities, preliminary results and possible future directions. It cites prior US research on community-supported agriculture, including a randomized clinical trial reporting that CSA participation produced clinically meaningful improvements in diet quality, and describes White Hill Farm (WHF) as one of only a handful of efforts concretely promoting engagement between Israeli Bedouin and Israeli Jews amid ongoing tension between the two groups.
CSA & TeikeiCommunityHealthFood miles & supply chainContemporary trends in urban allotment gardening: The example of family plots in Warsaw
2021Justyna Mokras-Grabowska · Konwersatorium Wiedzy o Mieście · Poland
A structured interview survey of 210 plot holders across four allotment gardens in Warsaw, Poland ("Pratulińska", "Obrońców Pokoju", "Kolejarz" and "Zelmot") examined current usage trends. Plot holders were mainly older, retired people, though the number of younger holders has been increasing in recent years, and most lived on large housing estates near the gardens. The main motivations for holding a plot were relaxation, gardening as a hobby and connection with nature; food production itself was not cited as a primary motivation. Most respondents held positive views on opening allotment gardens to local communities, but showed little eagerness to participate in integrational events organized by the Polish Association of Allotment Gardens (PZD) or others.
CommunityInvestigating the challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture in global north and global south countries
2021Sérgio Manuel Serra da Cruz, Anja Steglich, Pedro Vieira Cruz, Ana Claudia Macedo Vieira · · Global
A book chapter, noting that the world's largest cities continue to grow amid urbanization processes that differ in complexity between developed and developing countries, argues that well-managed urban spaces can offer opportunities for economic and social development. It investigates current challenges and opportunities in urban agriculture (UA) and discusses whether adopting urban computing (UC) and information and communications technologies (ICT) can help urban dwellers, farmers and planners advance UA in global north and global south countries such as Germany and Brazil, also touching on new joint-research possibilities raised at the 8th Brazil-Germany Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium (BRAGFOST).
CommunityPolicyDigital agriculturea Urban Farming Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Ekonomi Sulampua
2021Nur Khasanah · Medikonis · Indonesia
A study examined an urban farming program aimed at increasing national income in Indonesia's Sulampua (Sulawesi-Maluku-Papua) region, using SWOT analysis to identify the program's weaknesses, strengths, opportunities and threats and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to formulate strategies for optimizing its implementation. Based on the analysis, it recommends that government develop an appropriate urban farming concept, formulate related policy, educate the public, and provide supporting facilities and marketing assistance, that communities select appropriate seedlings and carry out farming practices diligently, and that the private sector provide business-oriented education and CSR funding.
CommunityEconomicsPolicyKemandirian Pangan dengan Pembuatan Budikdamber (Budidaya Ikan dalam Ember) di Kecamatan Telanaipura Kota Jambi
2021Deni Irfayanti, Putri Wahyu Ningsih · Jurnal Pembelajaran Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (JP2M) · Indonesia
A report on a community-service program (KKN-PPM) run by Universitas Islam Malang (UNISMA) as part of its COVID-19 response in Telanaipura District, Jambi City, Indonesia. To secure protein intake for middle-class households during the pandemic, participants used small plots of land around homes to raise catfish and grow vegetables such as water spinach through "budikdamber" (bucket-based fish farming). The output was used to meet household food needs and support local household economics; the report states this urban-farming activity strengthened both food security and community mutual-aid ties.
Food sovereignty & justiceCommunityKajian Preferensi Masyarakat untuk Arahan Pengembangan Urban Farming
2021Muhammad Fiar Sandika, Ina Helena Agustina · Prosiding Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota · Indonesia
A study of resident preferences regarding urban farming in Astanaanyar District, Bandung City, Indonesia, during the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed at formulating development directions based on those preferences. It combined a qualitative descriptive method to identify preferences with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) as a quantitative approach; urban farming activity was already occurring in the district but was not optimized. The results point toward developing urban farming on private and shared/government land, growing vegetable or plant-protein food crops using conventional or hydroponic methods or rooftop-garden/vertical techniques, first for personal consumption and then for sale.
CommunityPolicyWeeding Out Hunger: A Community Garden and Food Pantry Approach to Address Medical Student Food Insecurity
2021Harneet Kaur Dhillon, Alyssa Thorman, Jordan A. Franchina · Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition · United States
A report on a community-garden-and-food-pantry project to ease food insecurity among medical students at the University of Utah. Medical students planted and maintained a 400-square-foot garden and hosted numerous skills workshops; volunteers harvested 250 pounds of produce, and the food pantry managed distribution of over 6,500 pounds of other donated food items. The sustainable garden and pantry provided a significant amount of no-cost healthy food to students, and the study states that the scale of student involvement and food utilization demonstrates the need for novel strategies to address medical student food insecurity.
CommunityWelfareFood sovereignty & justiceEmpirical Model Valuation of Urban Agriculture Vulnerability to Flooding in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria
2021Joshua Jonah Kunda, Ahmed Abubakar Jajere, E. A. Otabe, Chindo Musa Muhammed, Umar Muhammed Bibi, Yusuf Maina-Bukar · Environment and Pollution · Nigeria
This study in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, used geospatial technology to assess agricultural land vulnerability to flooding, deriving factor weights (rainfall 25%, elevation 22%, slope 20%, drainage density 13%, land use/cover 12%, soil type 8%) through pairwise Analytical Hierarchy Process comparison (consistency ratio 0.078) and a weighted overlay model in ArcGIS 10.4. Farmland along the floodplains of the River Benue fell within the very highly vulnerable category, with elements at risk totaling 537.6 units of farmland (66.1%), 40.5 units of irrigation land (5.0%), and 125.8 units of built-up land (15.5%).
Environmental trade-offsPolicyCommunityClimate changeBanco palmas e o microcrédito: um exemplo de sucesso
2021Harine Matos Maciel, Jair do Amaral Filho, Wlisses Matos Maciel · Latin American Journal of Development · Brazil
This case study of Banco Palmas, a solidarity financial system created in 1988 by the Residents Association of Conjunto Palmeira in Brazil, was conducted through documentary and bibliographic research. Banco Palmas pursues local, solidarity-based development in Conjunto Palmeira through microcredit and complementary programs — a training school, an incubator for women at risk, an urban agriculture laboratory, a local currency circulating in neighborhood stores, fairs with local producers, and a solidarity store — and the paper concludes that it demonstrates the feasibility of self-sustainable popular and solidarity development projects through microcredit that stimulates consumption and production within the neighborhood itself.
CommunityEconomicsWelfareA Deep Learning and Social IoT Approach for Plants Disease Prediction Toward a Sustainable Agriculture
2021Giovanni Delnevo, Roberto Girau, Chiara Ceccarini, Catia Prandi · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · Global
This study combines Social Internet of Things sensing (solar radiation, humidity, air temperature, soil moisture) and communication, crowdsourced image collection and classification, and deep learning for plant disease detection, engaging farmers and community garden owners and experts, to build a system that predicts whether a plant will develop a disease with a given degree of precision. It presents the architecture, deep learning model, and a responsive web app, reporting experimental evaluations and usability/engagement tests alongside limitations and future work.
CommunityDigital agricultureFood educationLa educación ambiental, factor de cambio Agricultura Urbana en Teusaquillo, una experiencia educativa en medio de la pandemia
2021Paulo Germán García Murillo, Laura Belkis Parada Romero, Juana Yaira Martín Perico · · Colombia
In Bogotá's Teusaquillo locality, Colombia, an urban agriculture project was carried out in 2021 with teachers and fifth-grade students at Colegio El Carmelo during the pandemic, aiming to build awareness of STEAM competencies (environmental, technological, pedagogical, artistic). Two home-based experimental practices were designed using cargamanto bean seeds, chosen for being easy to obtain during food-supply crises, covering sustainability, STEAM and learning competencies. The pandemic period led the project to involve students' families as well as the students themselves, and the resulting reflections on food security, nutritional culture, prototyping culture and scientific citizenship are compiled as a record of the educational practice.
Food educationCommunityFood sovereignty & justiceProgram Penghijauan Dan Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Rumah Tangga Melalui Urban Farming
2021Retno Purwani Setyaningrum, Arsi Yulianjani, Igor Fadhilah Hibatullah · · Indonesia
A community outreach report from Pasirsari sub-district, Bekasi Regency, West Java, Indonesia, describing an urban-farming program combining deliberation meetings, extension talks and vegetable-growing practice aimed at building clean, healthy neighborhood behavior. The report concludes that most Pasirsari residents showed strong interest in the urban-farming concept, without presenting further outcome data.
CommunityEconomicsMovements, Care and Dispersed Periurban Landscapes Evoked by Dacha Allotment Gardens of Narva
2021Tarmo Pikner, Hannes Palang · · Estonia
A study of dacha-style allotment gardens in the border city of Narva, Estonia, on the eastern edge of the European Union, used ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews to examine how plural mobility and emotional human-nature interactions shape periurban landscapes. Results indicated a persistent rural dimension and multiple engagements with nature within Narva's wider urbanization dynamics. Plural mobility and emotional care motivated and sustained by allotment gardening constituted dispersed landscapes as connective tissue across periurban features. Landscape histories of the periurban area showed particular ruptures and reassemblies tied to shifts in the state-border regime.
CommunityPeri-urban agricultureUrban–rural linkageJustiça ecológica como bússola para ações em favor da agricultura urbana e periurbana
2021Paulo Eduardo Moruzzi Marques, Pierre‐Mathieu Le Bel, Vitória Oliveira Pereira de Souza Leão, Roberta Moraes Curan · Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural · Brazil
This article analyzes the motivations and strategies of actors in urban and peri-urban agriculture (AUP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, using justification theory across a sociology-and-geography lens. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, field observations, and document analysis, it examines two cases: the Milton Santos settlement spanning Americana and Cosmópolis, and the Farmers' Association of the Eastern Zone of the São Paulo capital. The right of access to land was found to be absolutely central to AUP; claims to this right, together with conceptions of AUP's roles, mobilize references to justice with ecological contours, which lends growing legitimacy to the cause and generates various kinds of support. However, evidence from the cases studied indicates that AUP is far from having its permanence and growth assured.
CommunityFood sovereignty & justicePolicy