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KONTRIBUSI SOSIAL MELALUI PROGRAM PERTUKARAN MAHASISWA MERDEKA BATCH 2 DI DESA BABAKAN, DRAMAGA, BOGOR
2025Muh Adjie Putra Pratama, Muhammad Ihsan A Dagong · Jurnal Abdi Insani · Indonesia (Bogor)
In 2022, the "Independent Student Exchange Program" was implemented in Babakan Village, Dramaga, Bogor Regency, Indonesia, involving over 160 students. Partnering with Dramaga Patani Organik, the program conducted urban farming education, nutritional counseling, and community service activities. The activities resulted in increased community understanding of organic farming, urban farming, and healthy eating patterns, while also strengthening students' solidarity and social responsibility.
Food educationCommunityFood sovereignty & justiceUrban Agriculture as a Food Security Solution Through Green Economy Approach
2025Agustin Windianingsih, Wiwin Wiwin, Tanti Febrianti · Journal of Finance and Business Digital · Global
This research investigated the potential of urban agriculture to overcome food crises and impact food security. Using a mixed-methods approach (quantitative and qualitative), the study found that people practicing urban farming are supported in terms of urban farming skills, food security, creation of green open spaces, entrepreneurial opportunities, fulfillment of nutritional needs, enjoyment of fresh crops, creation of community bonds, educational benefits, and awareness for mental health and the environment.
Food sovereignty & justiceEconomicsCommunityHealthFood educationClimate changeRooftop Gardening and Its Contribution to Income Generation in Dhaka City
2025Sadika Dipannita, Md. Taj Uddin, Nanda Dulal Kundu, Syed Walik Akib · Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University · Bangladesh (Dhaka)
This study evaluated the economic viability of rooftop gardening for income generation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sampling 60 gardeners from various areas. It found rooftop vegetable gardening to be economically viable with a benefit-cost ratio of 1.32, though income from it was not substantial compared to total income. Significant factors affecting gross return included gardener age and costs of seeds, pesticides, and water, while challenges identified were low soil quality and limited equipment.
EconomicsCommunityInfrastructuring for caring food practices: learnings from an Alpine community academy
2025Bianca Elzenbaumer, Flora Mammana, Carmen Gonzalez Miranda, Irene Manfrini · Local Environment · Italy
This paper explores grassroots infrastructuring supporting communal learning projects focused on caring food practices, from the perspective of practitioners at La Foresta community academy in the Italian Alps. It presents four interdependent activities—a community garden, a participatory drinks initiative, a mobile bread oven, and a forest school—demonstrating how food fosters community economies and empowers eco-social transformation.
CommunityFood educationEconomicsFood sovereignty & justiceSoilless Agricultural Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications for Enhancing Horticultural Resilience to Climate Change and Urbanization
2025Imran Ali Lakhiar, Haofang Yan, Tabinda Naz Syed, Chuan Zhang, Sher Ali Shaikh, Md Rakibuzzaman, Rahim Bux Vistro · Horticulturae · Global
A systematic review of soilless farming (SLF) systems globally identified their role in enhancing horticultural resilience in urban and peri-urban settings. SLF offers advantages like water conservation and increased yield, but faces significant challenges. High setup costs, substantial energy demands, and the requirement for specialized technical expertise continue to limit its widespread adoption.
Economic viabilityClimate changeUrban–rural linkageFood sovereignty & justiceDigital agriculture111Chapter 6 Cultivating the Self, Tending Others: Wellbeing, Relationality, and Transformation in Community Gardens
2025Anna Sofia Salonen, Giovanna Paccillo, Lauren Strumos, Rebecca Banham · · Global
This chapter discusses the relationship between community gardens and wellbeing, viewing wellbeing as a cultural field. It explores how gardeners experience wellbeing through their gardening and what these experiences reveal about their lifestances. The analysis shows that gardening can contribute to collective wellbeing through transformative engagement with ethics and ontologies, and that community gardens can serve as "everyday utopias" for expressing critique and desire for change. It identifies both the possibilities and limits of community gardens in fostering holistic, relational, transformative approaches to wellbeing.
CommunityHealthUrbant landbruk og retten til byen: et veikart for utøvere
2025Arild Eriksen, Deni Ruggeri, Esben Slaatrem Titland · · Norway (Oslo)
This essay examines urban agriculture from the perspective of an architect and urban farmer/beekeeper practicing bottom-up, participatory design in Oslo. Critical dimensions of urban agriculture in public space include private and corporate claims on these landscapes, and its current aesthetics of impermanence are critiqued. The essay questions the notion that the joy and freedom urban agriculture brings to a community should be built upon and enriched by future development and policy.
Governance failureCommunityPolicyHealthBiodiversityTransUrba. L’urbanisme transitoire au service des transitions écologique, économique et sociale des territoires
2025Sandra Mallet, Baptiste Colin, Thomas Zanetti, Marc G. Dumont, Annette, Groux · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · France (Bordeaux)
The TransUrba project investigates how different temporalities of action in urban space can be articulated by studying temporary urbanism initiatives. Through an analysis of three areas in France (Bordeaux, Lyon, and Lille metropolitan area), the project aims to understand how temporary urbanism is implemented, its innovative features, its impact on urban space, and how local public action can strengthen transitional urbanism.
Urban–rural linkageClimate changeCommunityPolicyPenggunaan Smart Hydroponic System Berbasis IoT untuk Meningkatkan Efisiensi Pertanian Perkotaan di Kelurahan Maleer Kecamatan Batununggal Kota Bandung
2025Seliwati, Candra Mecca Sufyana, Widwi Handari Adji, Ridwan Nurzaman, Agung Rifaldi, Ulfa Majdina · PADMA · Indonesia (Bandung)
In Maleer Village, Bandung City, Indonesia, healthy food supply is a challenge due to limited land and agricultural knowledge. To address this, a smart hydroponic system based on IoT sensors (temperature, humidity, pH, TDS) was developed. This system aims to improve the efficiency of hydroponic cultivation through real-time monitoring and automated watering and nutrient supply, empower local communities with technology and urban agriculture skills, support local food security, and enhance economic productivity.
Digital agricultureCommunityFood sovereignty & justiceEconomicsRevisiting Urban Resilience within the New Urban Agenda
2025Talent Moyo, Chipo Hungwe, Faith Zengeni · · Zimbabwe (Bulawayo)
This chapter examines urban resilience within the New Urban Agenda (NUA) using three pillars—adaptive capacity, absorptive capacity, and transformative capacity—in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe, urban resilience has been promoted through urban agriculture programs and efforts to regulate and capacitate informal economic activities. The qualitative case study argues that urban resilience primarily benefits individual urban citizens through livelihood creation, expanded livelihood portfolios, skills and knowledge development, meeting basic needs, and community support.
CommunityEconomicsFood sovereignty & justiceWelfareDetermining the Cooling Effect of Urban Agricultural Areas Through Remote Sensing-Based LST and Spatial Analyses
2025Nihat Karakuş · Journal of Agricultural Production · Turkey (Antalya)
This study quantitatively assessed the cooling effect of an urban agricultural area (a citrus orchard) in Antalya, Turkey, using Land Surface Temperature (LST) data from Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS satellite imagery on July 30, 2024. The mean surface temperature of the urban agricultural zone was 42.69 ± 1.26 °C, which was, on average, 1.46 °C colder than adjacent urban districts within a 600 m buffer zone. The cooling impact extended effectively up to 270 meters from its boundary, with effects ranging from 0.06 °C to 1.65 °C, diminishing statistically significantly with distance (p < 0.001; R² = 0.93).
Climate changeUrban–rural linkageConnecting the dots…
2025Purva Tavri · · India (Durg)
This chapter reframes the circular economy as a 'lived inheritance,' drawing from childhood practices like repair, reuse, frugality, and food respect in Durg, India. It critiques 'isomorphic mimicry' of imported models and advocates for reverse learning from communities. Using the 5Ws & H method, it demonstrates how vernacular circularity, including repair cultures, Ikra housing, terracotta cooling, leaf-plate economies, and community gardens, advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
CommunityClimate changeBiodiversityOrganic cycleA Question of Collaboration: Scaling the Commons Through Networking
2025Bernd Bonfert · Environment and Planning D Society and Space · Europe
This article investigates the role of 'commons networks' in organizing and scaling a commons-based economy, focusing on community-supported agriculture and energy communities in the UK, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Data was collected from qualitative case studies using interviews, observation, and document analyses. The study reveals a trend towards centralization in network governance, different scaling approaches between the food and energy sectors, and challenges of commodification and institutionalization.
CSA & TeikeiCommunityPolicyEconomicsImplementasi Teknik Pengambilan Gambar oleh Director of Photography pada Pembuatan Video Feature “Menyemai Harapan, Memanen Kebersamaan”
2025Fatah ‘Izzani Salim, Trie Damayanti, Nurmaya Prahatmaja · SAFARI Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Indonesia · Indonesia (Bandung City)
This final project report describes the production of the feature video "Menyemai Harapan, Memanen Kebersamaan," motivated by the urgency of food security in Bandung City's urbanization and the need to highlight community-based sustainable local alternative agriculture systems. The primary objective is to explain the implementation of image-taking techniques, including shot types, camera angles, camera movements, and framing, executed by the Director of Photography (DoP) during the video production presenting the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model at Seni Tani. The report concludes that the DoP's mastery of filming techniques plays a crucial role in raising public awareness about community-based sustainable local alternative agriculture systems.
CSA & TeikeiCommunityFood sovereignty & justiceUrban–rural linkageIdentifying the drivers influencing on the development of a nature- oriented urban landscape with an emphasis on urban agriculture (Case study: Tabriz metropolis)
2025Roghayyeh Khabbazi · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · Iran (Tabriz)
This mixed-method study aimed to identify drivers influencing the development of a nature-oriented urban landscape with an emphasis on urban agriculture in Tabriz metropolis, Iran. Data analysis used the partial least squares model in Smart-pls software and content analysis. Findings showed that management, laws and regulations, economic, social, physical, and design components, respectively, had the greatest impact on nature-oriented urban landscape development with urban agriculture. Key sub-components included developing a strategic plan, forming partnerships, developing binding laws to prevent the destruction of urban garden lands, reviewing agricultural laws to support urban agriculture, and using modern agricultural equipment.
Urban–rural linkagePolicyEconomicsCommunityA Switch to Commons: The Evolution of the Regulation of Urban Agriculture in Rome, Italy
2025Micol Sonnino, Simona Zollet · Urban Planning · Italy (Rome)
This article investigates how framing urban agriculture as a "common good" shapes governance and fosters participatory processes in Rome, Italy. In October 2024, the City of Rome approved a new regulation on urban agriculture, marking an evolution in its legal framework. Field research, including interviews and archival data analysis, found that urban agriculture practices in Rome exemplify collaborative governance, enabling cooperation between citizens and local government.
PolicyCommunityAgricultural Crop Production in the Urban Community: Its Opportunities and Challenges
2025Ermar A. Amistas, Joedar P. Satojito, Erly M. Martir · International Journal of Science and Management Studies (IJSMS) · Philippines
This quantitative study examined opportunities and challenges in agricultural crop production within two urban school communities in the Philippines (Jalandoni Memorial National High School and Iloilo City National High School) during the 2024-2025 school year, involving 352 Grade 10 students. Students reported practical skills, improved food access, environmental awareness, and community engagement as opportunities in urban gardening, but cited limited space, inadequate skills, resource gaps, and weak support systems as challenges. No statistical relationship was found between opportunities and challenges.
Food educationCommunityHealthGovernance Network in Food Security Policy: a Study of the Lorong Wisata Program in Makassar City
2025Much Faisal Syaputra · Jurnal Administrasi dan Kebijakan Publik · Indonesia (Makassar City)
This qualitative case study critically examined the governance structure of Makassar City's Lorong Wisata program, which integrates urban farming for food self-sufficiency. The study found a fragmented governance network dominated by the municipal government's vertical authority, with weak cross-sectoral collaboration, particularly with universities and private actors. Institutional fragility was evident due to the absence of functional task forces, leading to symbolic rather than substantive coordination.
Governance failurePolicyFood sovereignty & justiceCommunitySetting tables for community food sovereignty: Building a food sovereignty toolkit
2025William D. Schanbacher, Dhalia Bumbaca, Luciana Jones, Ana Vidal, Christiane Barros-Adwell, A. N. Olivieri, Jennifer Kue · Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development · United States (Tampa, Florida)
This study reflects on the collaboration between a university and community partners in Tampa, Florida, to develop a community-based food sovereignty assessment and toolkit for two underserved, food-insecure communities. Using community-based research methods, the project explored how to develop and deploy the concept of food sovereignty in an urban environment, identified gaps in urban agriculture education, and ultimately led to the creation of a food sovereignty toolkit.
Food sovereignty & justiceCommunityFood educationWelfarePolicyFINANCIAL APPLICATION OF PALM PLASMA IN OIL PALM PLANTATIONS IN INDONESIA BY-LAW NUMBER 11 OF 2020
2025April Tiodora Manik · Jurnal Ilmiah Mahasiswa Ekonomi Akuntansi · Asia
This quantitative study examined the implementation of Indonesia's Law Number 11 of 2020, particularly the 20% community plantation development facility (palm oil plasma), by seven oil palm plantation companies from 2019 to 2023. Statistical tests concluded that these seven companies had not properly applied the palm plasma system, indicating a failure to implement the law. Potential reasons include financial constraints, lack of infrastructure, limited stakeholder support, unclear guidelines, land acquisition difficulties, and weak coordination.
PolicyCommunityEconomics論考_都市農地のコモン的活用促進に関する研究― JA北河内の農業体験農園を事例として ―
2025華奈 中塚, 基 小林 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · Japan
This paper clarifies the effectiveness and challenges of JA-led agricultural experience farms, using JA Kitakawachi as a case study. It extracts elements for JA to support farmers and manage operations, aiming to revitalize local urban agriculture and maintain urban farmland by sharing it with residents as a common resource. The study suggests involving diverse stakeholders in managing experience farms for joint land use and sustainable development.
CommunityPolicyFood educationREKOMENDASI STRATEGI KEBERLANJUTAN PERTANIAN PERKOTAAN BERBASIS KOMUNITAS DI KECAMATAN CEMPAKA PUTIH, JAKARTA PUSAT
2025Assyifa Fauzia, Evi Frimawaty, Hadi Susilo Arifin · RISALAH KEBIJAKAN PERTANIAN DAN LINGKUNGAN Rumusan Kajian Strategis Bidang Pertanian dan Lingkungan · Indonesia (Jakarta)
This study aimed to provide recommendations for community-based urban agriculture sustainability in Cempaka Putih District, Central Jakarta, facing challenges like limited land and environmental changes. Using SWOT analysis and FGDs with stakeholders, the findings indicate that strategies can be implemented through agricultural technology and strengthened collaboration. However, the study implies that supporting policies, incentives, investment facilitation, and continuous infrastructure and assistance are currently lacking for implementation.
Governance failureCommunityFood sovereignty & justicePolicyClimate changeBonsai: The Science and Art of Miniature Tree Culture - A Review
2025M Jain · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Global
This review explores bonsai, the traditional Japanese art of cultivating miniature trees, as a blend of aesthetic philosophy and horticultural science. It examines the scientific principles, plant selection, propagation techniques, artistic styles, ecological value, and modern advancements in bonsai cultivation. The review also emphasizes bonsai's role in sustainable urban horticulture and environmental education, highlighting its ecological, aesthetic, and therapeutic benefits.
DIYFood educationBiodiversityHow Gardening Can Work towards Combatting the Biodiversity Crisis
2025Tamás Lakatos, Patrícia Andresz-Dérer, Dorota Kotowska, Péter Batáry · · Global
This chapter reviews the role of urban gardens, such as allotments, community gardens, and urban farms, in biodiversity conservation by highlighting a few case studies globally. Urban gardening practices may contribute to combatting the global biodiversity crisis through habitat provision for various plant and animal species in a concrete matrix. Depending on the taxon, these urban refuges can harbour more species than other urban green spaces like vacant lots, parks, remnants of natural habitats, and even exurban habitats.
BiodiversityCommunityShort‐Term Effects of El Niño (2023–2024 ENSO) Drought on Predation Patterns of Lepidopteran Prey in an Urban‐Agricultural Ecosystems
2025Janine Edradan, Asraf K. Lidasan, Christian Jay M. Sabanal, Pedro Serna, Faith Molina, Xesca Michaela P. Delos Reyes, Tricksy S. Cabuyadao, Angelo Rellama Agduma, Kier Celestial Dela Cruz, Krizler C. Tanalgo · Biotropica · Philippines
This study investigated differences in the predation rate of lepidopteran larvae across El Niño phases within an urban-agricultural landscape in Southcentral Mindanao, the Philippines. Predation rates were considerably higher in the pre-El Niño phase (mean 18.24%) than during the peak of the El Niño phase (mean 6.41%) and showed a slight, yet statistically insignificant, rise in the post-El Niño phase (mean 9.48%). Although predation by arthropods on herbivorous preys remained predominant during all periods, vertebrate predation was related to the warmer and drier conditions of El Niño associated with the 2023 ENSO.
BiodiversityClimate change