Research & reports

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

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• Urban horticulture: a part of the biodiversity picture

  1994

  H. B. Tukey · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Global

  This paper defines urban horticulture as the functional use of plants to improve urban environments. It states that urban horticulture contributes to screening views, food production, reducing noise and air pollution, ameliorating urban climates, and improving human well-being. The abstract notes that information on city plants often comes from observations and anecdotes, and that strategies from commercial agriculture do not always apply well to urban horticulture.

  BiodiversityHealthClimate changeFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511759406.020

• Urban agriculture in Kampala: Indigenous adaptive response to the economic crisis

  1993

  Daniel Maxwell, Samuel Zziwa · Ecology of Food and Nutrition · Uganda (Kampala)

  This study examines urban agriculture in Kampala, Uganda, as an adaptive response to economic hardships. It identifies significant constraints, including institutional obstacles to accessing underutilized urban land, municipal bylaws that suppress urban agriculture, and urban officials' indifferent to hostile views. The study found that these bylaws and views are based on misleading or false generalizations about urban agriculture.

  Governance failurePolicyEconomicsFood sovereignty & justiceCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.1080/03670244.1993.9991294

• Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources

  1992

  Jac Smit, Joe Nasr · Environment and Urbanization · Global

  This article describes how urban agriculture can transform cities from mere consumers of food and agricultural products into sustainable generators of these products. It focuses on using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources to achieve resource conservation and health improvement.

  CommunityOrganic cycleClimate changeFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.1177/095624789200400214

• ‘Three's a crowd’: knowledge, ignorance and power in the context of urban agriculture in Rwanda

  1989

  Johan Pottier · Africa · Rwanda

  This article explores the themes of knowledge, ignorance, and power in the context of a Rwandan development project, demonstrating how ignorance is generated through agricultural extension. It argues that agronomic services rely on power structures reminiscent of social inequality, and assesses whether the project-induced creation of ignorance leads to the displacement of local knowledge and the adoption of new methods.

  Governance failurePolicyCommunityFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.2307/1159942

• Urban Cultivation: A Reflection of Household Investment

  1985

  · Food and Nutrition Bulletin · Global

  Urban cultivation is an innovative response by the urban poor to insufficient real income, viewed as a form of long-term investment. This investment requires a minimum threshold of predictability of return, and most households need seven to eleven years of urban residence to gain access to land. Variations in cultivation patterns result from differences in land access and the need to maximize the return on domestic labor time. Policy implications include encouraging cultivation, providing legal land titles for land access, and increasing the productivity of rainy-season gardens.

  EconomicsWelfareFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.1177/156482658500700309

• Short-loop living

  1974

  Sam Love · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · Global

  This paper discusses contemporary industrial societies' reliance on extensive resource networks and proposes an alternative: moving towards self-sufficient small loop and flow systems. It describes examples of short loop arrangements in urban agriculture and solar energy housing, advocating for decentralization and diversity.

  Organic cycleFood sovereignty & justiceClimate change
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• 1p-F-15 Spherical rotorの回転相関関数と中性子散乱

  1971

  重一朗 浜, 伝 中村 · 年会予稿集 · Cuba

  In Cuba, programs such as dietary diversification, food fortification, and supplementation are implemented to address micronutrient deficiencies like iron, vitamin A, and iodine. Urban agriculture is positioned as one strategy to increase dietary diversity by enhancing the availability and consumption of vegetables and fruits. Research in Cuba has shown that vitamin A deficiency is nonexistent in children up to 7 years of age.

  HealthFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601820

• Villa Juanita Community Garden

  1905

  Diana Paola Betancurth Loaiza, Natalia Sánchez Palacio, Jorge Lino Moreno Aricapa · Repositorio Universidad de Caldas · Colombia

  This report details the experience of implementing the Urban Community Garden in the Villa Juanita neighborhood. The project focused on fostering urban agriculture as a strategy to improve food security and promote sustainability within the community. The garden became a space for community participation where diverse sustainable agricultural practices were integrated. Through this project, social cohesion was strengthened, environmental education was promoted, and spaces for interaction and collective learning were generated.

  CommunityFood educationFood sovereignty & justiceOrganic cycle
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