Research & reports

Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.

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• Gérard MONEDIAIRE [dir.], Agricultures urbaines et ville durable européenne. Droits et politiques du jardinage familial urbain en Europe, Limoges, PULIM-Presses universitaires de Limoges, 1999, 334 p.

  2000

  Isabel Boussard · OpenEdition (OpenEdition) · Europe

  This book, published in 1999, defines "urban agricultures" as agricultural activities aimed at land development within urban or peri-urban sites. It explores the subject beyond traditional French worker or family gardens, considering the diversity of garden types and the broad geographical scope across Europe.

  PolicyCommunityPeri-urban agriculture
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• The Garden History Of Devon: An Illustrated Guide to Sources

  1995

  Todd Gray, Devon Gardens Trust · · United Kingdom

  This guide compiles sources on the garden history of Devon. It includes Devon's gardens and surviving documents, how to begin garden research in Devon, how to use the guides, garden descriptions, documentary sources, printed sources, illustrations, and appendices. The appendices list places and gardens visited by Revd John Swete from 1789-1804, allotment gardens in Devon, Devon nurseries and market-gardens, Devon garden societies, and miscellaneous Devon records.

  CommunityPolicy
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• Further Report on the Surrey Docks City Farm in London, England

  1993

  Joyce Anstey · Environmental Conservation · United Kingdom (London)

  An abstract is not available for this content.

  CommunityFood education
  Read source →DOI: 10.1017/s0376892900037747

• City and Country: That Awkward Embrace

  1991

  John M. Merriman · Oxford University Press eBooks · France

  This chapter emphasizes the “awkward embrace” between city and country in the faubourg and the persistence of an urban agricultural population. It also considers how the troubled relationship between state and city affected the urban periphery and provides an overview of industry's role in faubourg development. To understand the urban periphery in France during the first half of the nineteenth century, it explores the state-city relationship (reflected in town walls), the persistence of rural life at the edge of and within cities, and industry's place in the emergence of the nineteenth-century faubourg.

  Urban–rural linkagePolicyCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195064384.003.0002

• Chapter 7: Urban Gardens

  1991

  David R. Coffin · Princeton University Press eBooks · Italy (Rome)

  This chapter, authored by David R. Coffin, explores urban gardens in Papal Rome. It contrasts these secular urban horticultural retreats with the cloistered gardens of monks.

  CommunityUrban–rural linkage
  Read source →DOI: 10.37862/aaeportal.00055.010

• Bestimmung des Gehaltes ausgewählter Lebensmittel an Blei, Cadmium, Kupfer, Zink und Eisen

  1988

  M. Krelowska‐Kulas · Food / Nahrung · Poland (Kraków)

  An investigation using atomic absorption spectroscopy in Kraków, Poland, found that vegetables from urban allotment gardens had average levels of lead, cadmium, copper, zinc, and iron several times higher than control samples from farms 100 km away. In some cases, maximum levels of certain elements approached the admissible limit. However, average levels of lead and cadmium in pigs and cattle showed no reason for objection.

  Contamination & food safetyHealthCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.1002/food.19880320703

• A study of common crop pests in allotment gardens around Leeds

  1979

  Howard J. Atkinson, Naomi Gibson, Harry C. Evans · Plant Pathology · United Kingdom (Leeds)

  A survey of 140 growers across 12 allotment sites around Leeds, UK, identified a wide range of crop pests, with brassicas, potatoes, and carrots being more frequently damaged. Soil samples from 33 plots at 10 established sites and 6 plots at 2 new sites revealed potentially damaging levels of pale potato cyst nematode in 21 and 1 plots, respectively. Widespread overwintering populations of carrot fly larvae and pupae were also found in soil samples from eight sites.

  Contamination & food safetyCommunityBiodiversityHealth
  Read source →DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1979.tb01122.x

• L'éducation mésologique

  1977

  Harry Wals · Aménagement et Nature · Netherlands (The Hague)

  This article describes mesologic education as a link between specialized environmental courses in schools. It details how The Hague's Local Office for School Gardens supports teachers in environmental education by offering practical assistance, living animals, maintenance examples, and facilities to their pupils.

  Food educationCommunity
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• Parks and Gardens

  1973

  Ivor H. Seeley · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · United Kingdom

  This chapter is subdivided into three sections concerned with public parks, children's playgrounds, and allotment gardens.

  CommunityPolicy
  Read source →DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01815-4_6

• Allotment gardens in the Lublin downtown in the spatial and urban planning context – origins and issues concerning their preservation

  1970

  Natalia Przesmycka, Rafał Strojny · Teka Komisji Architektury Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobrazowych · Poland (Lublin)

  This article examines allotment gardens in downtown Lublin, Poland, from a historical, architectural, and landscape perspective, focusing on the oldest garden, "Nasza Zdobycz nad Bystrzycą." It identifies that city-center allotment gardens are at risk from commercial development and discusses the increasing alienation of owners and progressing devastation of these areas. The study also attempts to explain these issues and suggests design applications for revitalization.

  Governance failureCommunityPolicyUrban–rural linkage
  Read source →DOI: 10.35784/teka.1777