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Contested Desires: The Edible Landscape of School
2005Catherine Burke · Paedagogica Historica · Global
This paper explores the "edible landscape" of schools in the UK context, examining the historical and pedagogical significance of food and drink production and consumption within educational institutions. It notes that early accounts viewed children's association with food as potentially chaotic and a marker of social class differences. However, schools also served as important sites for food production and consumption as a form of pedagogy from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.
Food educationCommunityPolicyUne agriculture multifionctionnelle dans le projet urbain : quelle reconnaissance, quelle gouvernance ?
2005Isabelle Duvernoy, Françoise Jarrige, Paule Moustier, José Serrano · Agritrop (Cirad) · Global
This article examines the integration of agriculture into urban projects, focusing on how the recognition of agriculture's multifunctionality changes project governance. Based on case studies in different countries, it shows that decision-making becomes more complex with the emergence of new stakeholders and consultation procedures. The study details how multifunctional urban and peri-urban agriculture is recognized, the legitimacy of local public action, its translation into urban planning, and the involvement of agricultural professionals in urban open space planning.
PolicyUrban–rural linkageCommunity杭州都市农业与农业机械化--发展农业机械化 促进农业现代化
2005叶荣剑, 陈建强 · 浙江农村机电 · China
The Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government positioned Hangzhou's agriculture as "urban agriculture" in alignment with the spirit of the 16th Party Congress and to coordinate urban-rural economic and social development. In January 2003, the "Hangzhou Urban Agriculture Development Implementation Opinions" notice was issued. Urban agriculture is defined as agriculture in highly industrialized and urbanized cities and their surrounding areas, leveraging urban advantages in capital, information, talent, and technology.
PolicyEconomicsDigital agricultureUBC Food Systems Project : development at UBC
2005Amanda Brown, Antonin van der Lely, Camilo Cortes, Eileen Leung, Fung Lam, Liz Overton, Muneera Hussain · cIRcle (University of British Columbia) · Canada
The UBC Food Systems Project evaluated the effects of campus development on creating a sustainable food system at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Researchers identified barriers and opportunities in UBC's Official Community Plan (OCP) and Comprehensive Community Plan (CCP), then proposed "The Edible Campus" urban agricultural strategy. This strategy included six actions like demonstration gardens and food production on buildings, with recommendations for future viability studies.
Food educationCommunityPolicyStrategic Problems on Coordinated Development Between Urban-agriculture and Urbanization of Tianjin
2005Sun Guo-xing · Tianjin Agricultural Sciences · China (Tianjin)
This article analyzes the mutual impacts of urban agriculture and urbanization in Tianjin, China, and suggests ways for urban-rural integrated coordinated development. It discusses key strategic problems for further development based on the current situation of urban agriculture and urbanization. The article reports on strategy and general development trends for urban agriculture and urbanization.
Governance failureUrban–rural linkagePolicyEconomicsEnvironmental protection consciousness and willingness to pay for agricultural Non-point Pollution in urban agricultural area
2005Cheng Xu · · China (Beijing)
This study examined environmental protection consciousness and willingness to pay (WTP) for agricultural non-point pollution in a suburban agricultural area in Beijing, China, using the contingent valuation method (CVM). Survey results showed that residents' environmental protection consciousness is rising, with a positive relationship between educated ages and family net income with WTP, but a negative relationship between interviewee age and WTP. The averaged WTP was 49.18 yuan RMB per capita, and the total WTP for Shunyi district was about 26.81 million yuan RMB in 2002.
Peri-urban agriculturePolicyContinuous Productive Urban Landscapes: urban agriculture as an essential infrastructure
2005André Viljoen, Katrin Bohn · University of Brighton Repository (University of Brighton) · United Kingdom (London)
This paper, from a U.K. perspective, discusses urban agriculture using London as an example. While the benefits of urban agriculture for food security and income have often focused on the Global South, its integration into a multifunctional land use strategy could significantly reduce a city's ecological footprint, raising questions about its wider implementation.
Urban–rural linkageFood sovereignty & justiceEconomicsClimate changePolicyUne agriculture multifonctionnelle dans le projet urbain: quelle reconnaissance, quelle gouvernance?
2005Isabelle Duvernoy, Françoise Jarrige, Paule Moustier, José Serrano · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Global
This paper examines how the recognition of agriculture's multifunctional character influences the local governance of urban development projects. Using international case studies, it explores the involvement of agriculture in urban management, changes in decision-making arenas, and the legitimacy of urban and peri-urban agriculture in local public policies. It also discusses the translation of urban agriculture functions into town planning documents and identifies the stakeholders involved, particularly agricultural institutions.
PolicyUrban–rural linkageSOME QUESTIONS ON URBAN AGRICULTURE
2005Wanbin Zhu · Keji daobao · China
This paper discussed various questions concerning Urban Agriculture (UA) research in China, covering its origin, concept, functions, and land use planning. It also provided suggestions regarding common misconceptions, potential research areas, and strategies for the sustainable development of UA.
PolicyUrban–rural linkageClimate changeInstitutional and legal aspects of urban agriculture in French-speaking West Africa: from marginalization to legitimization
2005Oumar Cissé, Ndèye Fatou Diop Gueye, Moussa Sy · Environment and Urbanization · Africa
This paper reports on research and city consultations in seven West African cities, examining the institutional aspects and constraints of urban agriculture. Despite growing interest from public authorities, this has not led to effective consideration in institutional and legal provisions in most countries. Decentralization processes have also not resulted in city government commitment to support urban agriculture, and its legal status remains uncertain.
Governance failurePolicyCommunityThe Effect of Community Gardens on Property Crime Rates in Inner City Houston
2005M.R. Gorham, Tina M. Waliczek · HortScience · United States (Houston)
This study aimed to determine if a relationship existed between reported property crimes and the presence of inner city community gardens in Houston, Texas. Property crime data from 1995 through 2004 were obtained from the Houston Police Department, and crime rates within a 1/8-mile radius surrounding community gardens were compared to the property crime rate for the entire police beat. The abstract does not state the study's results.
CommunityHealthPolicy实施“三名工程”打造教育强区
2005李仁杰 · 决策导刊 · China (Chongqing)
The Jiulongpo District in Chongqing, China, has implemented "high-tech strategy, urbanization strategy, and urban agriculture strategy" under the guidance of a scientific development concept. The district committee and government emphasize coordinated economic and social development and highly value education. The abstract describes the district's general development strategies and its focus on education, mentioning urban agriculture as one of the strategies.
PolicyEconomicsUrban–rural linkageUrban agriculture: The new frontier
2005Ian Knowd, David Mason, Andrew Docking · · Global
The integration of agriculture into urban landscapes has a long history, intensifying since the industrial revolution, with early "garden cities" remaining utopian ideals. In contemporary urban development, renewed interest in agriculture relates to implementing sustainability and addressing globalization's structural changes to communities, food systems, and urban quality of life. Urban agriculture is a strategic resource requiring a strategic planning approach that recognizes its economic, social, and environmental values.
Urban–rural linkageClimate changeFood sovereignty & justicePolicyAn Assessment Of Urban Agricultural Land Use Changes Using Geospatial Information System: A Case Study Of Jos-Bukuru
2005E. Omomoh, C. O. Adeofun · · Nigeria
This study assessed urban agricultural land use changes in Jos-Bukuru, Nigeria, between 1961 and 2002 using a geospatial information system. It found that agricultural land use substantially increased from 1961 to 1986. However, between 1986 and 2002, approximately 63% of agricultural land was lost, with about 68% of this loss attributed to urban development. The study concludes that while urban spatial expansion is increasing, agricultural land use is decreasing.
Governance failurePolicyUrban–rural linkageClimate changeFrom informal to formal acceptance: leaps and bounds of urban agriculture in the development sphere
2005Ranasinghe · The International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management · Sri Lanka
This paper expands knowledge on urban agriculture through literature analysis and feedback from implementing the Family Business Garden concept in Sri Lanka. It argues that traditional home gardening distracts urban planners from the economic and social value of small-to-medium agro-entrepreneurship. The paper emphasizes the necessity of formal acceptance for micro-farming activities by mainstreaming urban agriculture in the development sphere.
Urban–rural linkageFood sovereignty & justiceEconomicsPolicyUrban Agriculture: Small, Medium, Large
2005Gil Doron · Architectural Design · Global
This paper by Gil Doron explores urban agriculture's potential ecological, economic, and social benefits for city dwellers. It notes that horticulture, often overlooked by architects, exists at various scales in most cities globally, from window boxes to large farms. The author suggests urban agriculture could be a significant design revolution.
CommunityEconomicsClimate changeHealthPolicy以科学发展观推进杭州“三农”工作
2005孙景淼 · 杭州研究 · China (Hangzhou)
In 2005, Hangzhou's "San Nong" (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers) work was guided by the spirit of the 16th Central Committee's Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions, prioritizing integrated urban-rural development. The focus was on increasing farmers' income and improving their quality of life, with key initiatives including developing urban agriculture, promoting employment transfer, deepening practical projects, and protecting farmers' rights.
PolicyUrban–rural linkageEconomics加强“三农”工作 建设都市农业大区：发展都市农业实现进位争先
2005付明星 · 学习与实践 · China
A Chinese policy paper on urban agriculture development in Xinzhou District, Wuhan. Following the central government's emphasis on the "three rural issues" (agriculture, rural areas, farmers), Xinzhou pursued structural adjustment and specialty-agriculture promotion, reporting its best performance in agricultural output growth and farmer income increase in 2004 in eight years. It then sets out plans to address remaining problems—large population relative to land, low productivity, unoptimized structure, product quality-and-safety issues, and weak agricultural technology extension—through scientific planning, structural adjustment, institutional innovation, specialty agriculture, circular economy, agricultural standardization, industrialization, and rural labor transfer.
PolicyCommunitySt Paul Community Gardens: A Study of Public Land Use Policies and Relationships with District Councils
2005Brian Noy · University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota) · United States
A research project examined community gardens in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA, against a backdrop of rising development pressure and disappearing vacant space, looking at public land use policies and how cooperation between public agencies and community organizations affects garden creation and protection. Creating an inventory of public land use policies in St Paul and Ramsey County, including the city's water utility policy for community gardens, the project found that gardening is possible on most types of public land and that gardens have had generally successful relationships with most landowning agencies—but also found that a lack of this policy information has been a crucial barrier to garden implementation and has in some cases prevented development. District councils were found to both collaborate with city planners and act as community organizers, giving them, as nonprofits with a direct relationship to city government, access to funding and public lands not available to other organizations.
CommunityPolicyOpportunities and constraints to urban aquaculture, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia.
2005D.C. Little, Stuart W. Bunting · CABI Publishing eBooks · Global
A review chapter surveys the concept, opportunities and constraints of urban aquaculture in South and Southeast Asia (SSEA), using the "extended metropolitan region" (EMR) and "waste economy" models to outline three development trajectories: opportunistic development within a changing aquatic landscape as urbanization proceeds, continuation of existing aquaculture in modified form as urbanization occurs around it, and strategic siting of new enterprises to exploit resources such as nutrients, markets or information. Urban aquaculture is described as providing benefits at household, local and municipal levels including waste disposal, food production, flood control, employment, environmental quality and recreation, while constraints include loss of suitable physical locations, changes in waste disposal practices, shifting attitudes and demand as urban areas grow more affluent, and vulnerability to contamination and theft due to the openness of aquatic systems.
CommunityEconomicsPolicy发扬“四创”精神 积极推进“三个集中”——对无锡市农民向城镇集中的初步调查及对策建议
2005陈璧显, 何正明 · 上海农村经济 · China
A report on preliminary investigation and policy recommendations concerning Wuxi City's (Jiangsu Province, China) "three concentrations" strategy, announced at an April 2005 rural work conference: concentrating agriculture into appropriately scaled operations within modern urban-agriculture planning zones, concentrating industry into development and industrial zones, and concentrating farmers into towns and communities (central villages). Positioned by the Wuxi municipal party committee and government as a key initiative and as a long-term strategy of industry feeding back into agriculture and cities supporting rural areas, the report states that each city, county and district was, at the time, steadily advancing the strategy based on prior practice.
PolicyRecently completed doctorates in social and cultural geography
2005Maija Heimo · Social & Cultural Geography · Colombia (Bogotá)
This is a notice of a doctoral dissertation completed at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, titled "A Political Ecology of Conservation: Peri-urban Agriculture and Urban Water Needs in Mexico City." The dissertation examines the cultural politics of peri-urban agriculture and urban water needs in Mexico City.
PolicyPeri-urban agricultureUrban–rural linkageAGRICULTURA URBANA COMO UM COMPONENTE DO DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO SUSTENTÁVEL: BRASIL, FRANÇA E RÚSSIA
2005Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Gustavo Kauark Chianca, Marcel Marloie, Altair Toledo Machado, Cynthia Torres de Toledo Machado · Cadernos de Ciência & Tecnologia · Global
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) treats the development of urban agriculture as part of sustainable human development policy, as it proposed at the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in June 1996. This article analyzes urban agriculture in three cases: Russia, where it developed after World War II; France, representing Western European countries where the activity has been marginalized; and Brazil, where its development is a consequence of agricultural modernization that pushed people into cities. Surveys and a literature review show that urban agriculture has historically reduced the intensity of food crises and has contributed to feeding part of the population in normal periods, while also serving functions of pleasure and relaxation, therapy, and identity. It helps transmit cultural heritage and can be used educationally. Developing these functions requires both legislative action ensuring long-term access to land plots for all social groups and joint activity among multiple public and private participants.
CommunityPolicyHealthWelfareFood educationThe role of Barangays in Kabuhayan sa Gulayan Urban Agriculture Programs in Metro Manila, Philippines
2005Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Makoto Yokohari, Akinibu MURAKAMI, Takashi Watanabe · JOURNAL OF RURAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION · Asia
This study examined how the Kabuhayan sa Gulayan urban agriculture program in Metro Manila, Philippines -- started to improve the living conditions of the urban poor and reduce urban waste -- is implemented, focusing on the supportive roles of participants including the Department of Agriculture, the Municipal Agricultural Office, Barangays, and NGOs. It found that Barangays can support "selection of farmers" and "use of compost," attributing this to their small administrative scale, which allows them to adjust opinions with residents, and it concludes that Barangay participation in the program is important.
PolicyCommunityWelfarePortland Underground: Exploring Urban Soils in Maine
2005Samantha Langley-Turnbaugh, David E. Wilkinson, D. Rocque · Soil Survey Horizons · United States
This study characterized urban soils in a low-income neighborhood of Portland, Maine, that was heavily industrialized in the late 1800s, examining seven pedons for particle size, cation exchange capacity (CEC), base saturation, exchangeable bases, pH, and trace elements (Pb, Cr, Cu, Co, Cd, Ni, Zn, Hg, Ti, Zr). The soils contained numerous artifacts and showed a high degree of horizontal and vertical spatial variability; several trace elements were present at elevated levels, with lead (Pb) the dominant metal in surface horizons (600 mg/kg), and many metals correlated with each other and with iron and aluminum, and some with clay content and pH, though the study concludes that mapping soil units by specific trace element ranges would be difficult given the extreme variability observed.
Contamination & food safetyCommunityHealthPolicy