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STUDY ON THE STRATGY OF ENHANCING THE FUNCTION OF URBAN HORTICULTURE AND ESTABLISHING GREEN REGIONAL ECONOMY
2008Shujun Li · · Global
This article analyzes the economic nature and basic function of urban horticulture, based on market orientation and the aim of establishing a green regional economy and harmonious society. It discusses strategies for developing urban horticulture and provides countermeasures to enhance its function and establish a green regional economy.
EconomicsPolicyUrban–rural linkageStudy on the Orientation of Urban Agriculture under the Background of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Integration
2008HE De-hong · Anhui nongye kexue · China
Based on an analysis of the conditions, advantages, problems, and challenges of developing urban leisure agriculture in the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan areas, and a systematic review of domestic and international experiences, the construction and development directions for urban leisure agriculture in these areas were confirmed from four aspects: industry, market, product, and spatial orientation.
EconomicsPolicyThe food security environment nexus in urban agriculture in Harare.
2008R. Machiridza, Emmanuel Manzungu · University of Zimbabwe Institutional Repository (University of Zimbabwe) · Zimbabwe (Harare)
Perceptions of urban agriculture in Harare, Zimbabwe, shifted from prohibition before 1980 due to environmental concerns to de facto government policy after independence due to increasing urban poverty. Land was initially allocated to co-operatives primarily for political support, creating tension between political patronage and environmental protection. Critics argue that authorities only accepted urban agriculture's reality two decades post-independence, driven by its potential for poverty reduction and economic development.
Governance failurePolicyFood sovereignty & justiceEconomicsClimate changeMANEJO AGROECOLÓGICO DE PLAGAS Y ENFERMEDADES EN LA AGRICULTURA URBANA. ESTUDIO DE CASO CIUDAD DE LA HABANA, CUBA
2008Luis L. Vázquez Moreno, Emilio Fernández Gonzálvez · · Cuba
A participatory research study conducted in 2003–2005 across municipalities and representative production systems of Havana's urban and peri-urban agriculture — where synthetic pesticides are prohibited in "organopónico" and other orchard systems — characterized farmers' pest management practices. Farmers were found to have adopted agroecological innovations including managing floristic diversity, crop rotations and associations, corn and other plant barriers, repellent plants, peripheral live fences, natural-enemy reservoirs, biopesticide applications, and botanical preparations.
Organic cycleCommunityPolicyIncreasing recognition of urban and peri-urban agriculture: emerging declarations for its support and policy review
2008Camillus J. Sawio · Journal of Building and Land Development · Global
A largely literature-review paper on the growing international, regional and local recognition of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) compared with three decades earlier. It frames UPA as increasingly understood to contribute to feeding poor urban populations especially in developing countries, alleviating poverty, and addressing hunger, food security and sustainable urban and environmental management, and credits organizations including the Support Group on Urban Agriculture (SGUA), The Urban Agriculture Network (TUAN), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Netherlands-based RUAF network, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNDP, and CGIAR with systematically organizing regional consultative seminars and workshops that produced municipal declarations supporting UPA. The paper states the impact of these declarations on policy review still remains to be seen.
PolicyFood sovereignty & justiceCalifornia communities deal with conflict and adjustment at the urban-agricultural edge
2008Alvin D. Sokolow, Sonja Varea Hammond, Maxwell Norton, Evan E. Schmidt · California Agriculture · United States (California)
An exploratory study compared high- and low-conflict urban-agricultural edges in four crop-growing communities across two California counties, where about 2.5 million agricultural acres lie adjacent to or near nonfarm residences; a separate sidebar analyzed two edge situations involving animal and nursery operations in San Diego County. High conflict levels were found to stem largely from residents' unfamiliarity with agricultural activities, though conflict also related to specific farming practices; the study presents these as tentative generalizations and poses questions for further systematic research rather than firm solutions.
PolicyCommunityUrban–rural linkage北京都市农业种植制度的发展方向——春玉米-熟制
2008赵华甫, 张凤荣, 李佳, 唐衡 · Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni · China (Beijing)
A study on Beijing's urban agriculture cropping system, arguing that a rational choice of planting system is needed to overcome water resource constraints, realize agriculture's ecological service function of suppressing dust, and meet farmers' need for supplementary income, using a combination of literature research, experiments, and field surveys to examine the necessity of adjusting the planting system and the benefits of different systems. Comparing multiple benefits of a spring-maize single-cropping system against a winter-wheat/summer-maize double-cropping system, the spring-maize single-cropping system showed somewhat lower economic benefit than the double-cropping system, but better environmental benefit, lower water consumption, and greater potential for farmers' supplementary income. The study concludes that the spring-maize single-cropping system better matches the requirements of Beijing's urban agriculture development.
PolicyClimate changeEconomicsFoundation of Information Sharing and Service Platform for Agricultural Science and Technology in Tianjin
2008Wang Jian-chun · Agriculture Network Information · China
Building on Tianjin's existing agricultural information infrastructure, this article describes an effort to establish a "110" information sharing and service platform for agricultural science and technology in Tianjin, China, aiming to build an information service system responsive to the city's urban agricultural development. It states the platform draws on a phone consultation system, the internet, a short-message platform, farmers' science and technology reading rooms, agricultural information collectors, and agricultural technology training, but reports no data on outcomes or evaluation of implementation.
PolicyDigital agricultureA summing up: Synthesis 2007: Changing the way we manage water for food, livelihoods, health and the environment
2008Larry Harrington, E. M. L. Humphreys, Annette Huber‐Lee, Sophie Nguyen-Khoa, Simón Cook, Gichuki, Francis N., Nancy L. Johnson, Claudia Ringler, K. Geheb, Jonathan Woolley · CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) · Global
A synthesis report summarizing activities and achievements of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) through the end of 2007, an initiative addressing global water scarcity and food security across nine benchmark river basins organized around five themes. Achievements in rainfed environments include advances in no-till conservation agriculture, "slash and mulch" replacing "slash and burn" in hillside farming, dryland water-harvesting systems, understanding of livelihood vulnerability and farmers' coping strategies, and distribution of drought-tolerant sorghum and wheat through participatory varietal selection and seed schemes. In irrigated and salt-affected environments, progress included development and testing of salt-tolerant rice germplasm, understanding of how wastewater can be used in irrigated peri-urban agriculture to grow safe, nutritious vegetables, and development of aerobic rice germplasm and management practices that use less water.
Food sovereignty & justiceClimate changePolicyLeberecht Migge's "Green Manifesto": Envisioning a Revolution of Gardens
2007Haney D. H. · Landscape Journal, 26(2), 201-218 · Germany
Analyzes Migge's 1919 'Green Manifesto', one of the most overtly political tracts by a landscape architect, proposing that intensive vegetable gardens for everyone could solve Germany's social and economic problems through a technologically modern synthesis of garden and dwelling.
Organic cycleCommunityPolicy地区レベルの計画に位置づけられた都市農村交流の効果と課題に関する研究
2007日本都市計画学会 · 都市計画論文集（日本都市計画学会）42.3, 877 · Japan
An empirical analysis of the effects and challenges of urban-rural exchange projects written into district-level plans, critically examining the structural gap between the planning system and on-the-ground practice.
PolicyCommunityRussia's Unknown Agriculture: Household Production in Post-Socialist Rural Russia
2007Pallot J., Nefedova T. · Oxford University Press (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series) · Russia
A monograph based on four years of fieldwork across European Russia examining the scale, geography, and socioeconomic significance of household plot production in post-socialist rural Russia.
EconomicsPolicyCommunityWastewater Agriculture in Kurunegala City, Sri Lanka
2007Jayakody P., Gunawardana I., Guneratne S., Clemett A., Dissanayake P. · IWMI Research Reports (WASPA Asia Project Report 8), International Water Management Institute · Sri Lanka (Kurunegala)
This IWMI report documents peri-urban paddy cultivation using diverted municipal wastewater around Kurunegala city, highlighting the practice as representative of urbanization impacts on Sri Lankan agriculture while identifying significant public health risks from untreated effluent irrigation.
EconomicsHealthOrganic cyclePolicyOn Development of Urban Gardening from Perspective of Sociology
2007Xiaolan Tang · Nanjing Linye Daxue xuebao · Global
This paper examines the sociological implications of urban gardens from an urban sociology perspective. It discusses traditional gardens as collective memory, modern gardens as urban development symbols, and new gardens as shared social spaces. The paper also explores the future urbanization trend of natural ecology and offers suggestions for addressing challenges in urban gardening development.
CommunityPolicyUrban–rural linkageChallenges and key success factors to integrating learning and change in monitoring and evaluation of development projects.
2007Bertha Camacho Tuckermann · Knowledge Management for Development Journal · Cuba
An action-research study within an Urban Agriculture project in Cuba identified challenges in integrating learning and change into the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development projects. The main challenge was that the project team did not recognize M&E as a learning tool, believing results could be used against their work. A lack of time for learning and knowledge sharing was another observed challenge. To address these, resistance was overcome through dialogue, reflection, and action, leading to team empowerment, and the role of an external facilitator proved key in steering the learning process.
Governance failurePolicyCommunityDiscussion on the Relation of Building New Countryside and Developing Urban Agriculture
2007Wang Guo-yue · Journal of Agricultural Mechanization Research · China
This article reviews the historical background and principles of building a new countryside in China, emphasizing the importance of modern agriculture. It uses urban agriculture as an example, explicating its development experience and models in foreign countries. Based on these experiences, the article proposes measures to promote urban agriculture development and plans for building a new countryside in China.
PolicyUrban–rural linkageEconomicsUrban Farming and Food Security Initiatives in Lagos: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Innovative Approaches in Low-Income Neighborhoods
2007Femi Oladipo, Chinedu Nwankwo, Ifokwe复原了你的信息,这里是我按照要求生成的3个符合要求的全名, Tayo · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Nigeria (Lagos)
Urban farming initiatives are widespread in Lagos, Nigeria, aiming to address food security challenges for low-income residents. This research employed participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions with community leaders, farmers, and residents over a six-month period. Farmers reported that approximately 70% of their produce was consumed by the local community, indicating a direct impact on food security.
Food sovereignty & justiceCommunityWelfarePolicyCommunity Essay: SPIN-Farming: advancing urban agriculture from pipe dream to populist movement
2007Roxanne Christensen · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · United States (Philadelphia)
This essay discusses the development and potential of SPIN-Farming as a tool to demonstrate the economic viability of urban agriculture, which the author began advocating for in Philadelphia in 1998. The author applied their background in helping entrepreneurs to develop SPIN-Farming, aiming to revive the farming profession and rebuild local food systems. SPIN-Farming is presented as a concept learnable across economic classes and geographical boundaries, fostering engaged agriculture.
EconomicsCommunityPolicyComparison of Origin and Function on Urban Agriculture In Different Countries
2007Huang Ying · · Global
This paper compares the origins and functions of urban agriculture (UA) in various countries. It notes that UA is flourishing globally, with its origins, evolution, and modalities differing across nations due to diverse natural, economic, and social conditions. The study aims to better develop UA by examining these characteristics in typical countries.
CommunityEconomicsPolicyThe Role of Community Gardens in Sustaining Healthy Communities
2007Susan Thompson, Linda Corkery, Bruce Judd · · Australia (Sydney)
This research investigated a community garden scheme within a large high-rise public housing estate in Sydney's inner west, Australia, as part of an urban renewal program. The study found that the project yielded a broad range of positive physical and psychological well-being outcomes for tenants, including opportunities for relaxation, physical activity, socialization, cultural exchange, learning horticulture, and access to low-cost fresh produce. The findings confirm that community gardens can significantly enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, contributing to healthy and socially sustainable communities.
CommunityHealthPolicy日本东京都郊区现代农村建设的经验及启示——以三鹰市、桧原村为例的分析
2007焦必方 · 上海经济研究 · Japan (Tokyo)
This paper analyzes the experiences of modern rural construction in the suburbs of Tokyo, focusing on Mitaka City and Hinohara Village. It highlights the development of suburban rail networks and other infrastructure, the provision of comprehensive public facilities, and the promotion of urban agriculture tailored to suburban characteristics. The study also notes efforts to balance regional development disparities, advocate democratic management, and pursue social harmony.
Urban–rural linkagePeri-urban agriculturePolicyChicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
2007Sally A. Kitt Chappell · · United States (Chicago)
Sally A. Kitt Chappell's "Urban Nature" is a guide to Chicago's blend of nature and architecture, highlighting the integration of green spaces into the city's cultural life. The book explores historic sites like Garfield Park Conservatory and contemporary green spaces such as City Hall's rooftop garden and Millennium Park. It emphasizes the connection between buildings, landscapes, culture, and nature in Chicago's urban concept.
CommunityBiodiversityPolicyStrategic Reflections upon the Aggregate Paradigms of the Experience of Chang-Zhu-Tan City Cluster: From the Perspective of Urban Agriculture
2007Zeng Fu-sheng · Zhongnan Linye Keji Daxue xuebao · China (Chang-Zhu-Tan)
This paper discusses the significant role of urban agriculture in the emergence of urban agglomeration and the mixture of city and countryside during China's rapid urbanization. It analyzes city agriculture using the example of the Chang-Zhu-Tan City Cluster, presenting a construction framework design for urban agriculture during urban agglomeration formation, and proposing relevant policies.
Urban–rural linkagePolicyCommunityApproach of Assessment on Urban Agriculture Performance
2007HU Xi-feng · Nongye xiandaihua yanjiu · China
This paper explains the connotation and characteristics of assessing urban agricultural performance in China, summarizing its existing thought and deficiencies. It proposes a corresponding assessment index system tailored to the actual conditions of China's national urban agriculture.
EconomicsPolicyPark Development on the Urban-Agricultural Fringe
2007William F. Stewart, James R. Barkley, Andrew Kernis, Katerie Gladdys, Troy D. Glover · Journal of Park and Recreation Administration · United States
This study assessed participants' lived experiences and place meanings in urban-agricultural fringe landscapes in the Chicago metropolitan area and Urbana, Illinois, using an autodriven photo elicitation method (APEC). Participants expressed place meanings that valued human history, tolerated human development, and indicated a need to heal the land. These findings informed two principles for park development: embodying public memories and allowing community-based restoration of ecological and cultural heritage.
Peri-urban agricultureUrban–rural linkagePolicy