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围绕山水做文章 依托优势搞旅游——浅谈武隆发展旅游都市农业的思路
2005周绿林 · Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni · China
Tourism is a leading industry for job creation and environmental protection in the 21st century, bringing comprehensive benefits with high relevance and strong driving force. In Wulong County, cultivating and developing urban tourism agriculture based on resource advantages and implementing a strong tourism county strategy are crucial for economic development and social progress.
EconomicsCommunityUrban–rural linkageUrban 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 changeHealthPolicyParticipatory rural appraisal of dairy farms in the north west province of Cameroon
2005P. H. Bayemi, M. J. Bryant, David Puewoh Pingpoh, H Imele, Jean Claude Mbanya, Tanya Tanya, D. Cavestany, J Awoh, A Ngoucheme, D Sali, F Ekoue, H. NJAKOI, E.C. Webb · CentAUR (University of Reading) · Cameroon
A Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) was conducted in dairy farms of the North West Province of Cameroon to understand prevailing dairy systems, identify problems, and set priorities for research and development to improve production. The research team visited farmers' groups and conducted farm and village walks, noting direct observations. Results showed five small-scale dairy production systems (transhumance, improved extensive, semi intensive, zero grazing, and peri-urban) exist in the region, with agriculture well integrated into dairying. Main constraints, in order of importance, included poor marketing opportunities, limited grazing land, poor reproductive management, inadequate knowledge in processing and milk preservation, and limited health control.
Peri-urban agricultureEconomicsCommunityCaracterización de los agricultores, biodiversidad y tecnologías de cultivos en el Consejo Popular Norte y Sur del municipio de San José de las Lajas, Provincia La Habana
2005Loracnis Hernández, María de los A Pino, Eduardo Calves, María E Dominí, A Ramírez, Z. Terán · Cultivos Tropicales · Cuba
This study executed the first diagnostic phase of a participatory plant breeding project in urban agriculture in the municipality of San José de las Lajas, Havana Province. The research characterized farmers, biodiversity, and crop technologies in the Norte and Sur Popular Councils.
CommunityBiodiversityImplications Of Rainwater Harvesting In ARiver Basin Management: Evidence FromThe Modder River Basin, South Africa
2005Yali E. Woyessa, Etheresia Pretorius, Pieter S. van Heerden, M. Hensley, L. van Rensburg · WIT transactions on ecology and the environment · South Africa
This field survey in the Modder River basin, South Africa, investigated the potential expansion and implications of a rainwater harvesting technique introduced to small-scale farmers. While a rapid spread within home yard sizes was expected, no significant spread to community gardens or beyond was anticipated in the short term. This limitation was attributed to socio-economic constraints, including poverty and a lack of appropriate tools and basic farming skills.
Limited or null effectDIYCommunityClimate changeMeasuring technical efficiency of urban farms in Uyo metropolis
2005NAA Etim, EJ Udoh, TT Awoyemi · Global Journal of Agricultural Sciences · Nigeria
As no abstract is provided, there is no information regarding the study's objectives, methods, results, or conclusions. Keywords indicate urban farming, technical efficiency, stochastic frontier, and population pressure.
Economics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 linkageEconomicsDeterminación del consumo energéticoen la labranza en cultivos terropónicos
2005Arquímides Luna López, Alberto González Infante, Osvaldo Leyva Santiesteban, Mileidys Martínez Hernández · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · Cuba
This research investigated the influence of forced vibrations on the energy requirements for soil preparation in terroponic crops. Experiments conducted at UNAH using an MTZ-80 tractor at approximately 20 cm depth demonstrated that the energy requirements for scarifying organs could decrease by more than 25% with vibrations. This finding may enable the development of tillage equipment capable of being coupled to existing low-power sources in urban agriculture.
EconomicsParticipación laboral y autonomía femenina en un contexto de agricultura urbana / Labor Participation and Female Autonomy in a Context of Urban Agriculture
2005Fernando Neira Orjuela · Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos · Mexico
This study examines San Luis Tlaxialtemalco, a town of 12,553 inhabitants in the Xochimilco borough in southern Mexico City that engages in urban agriculture, through a survey of 185 households, to determine whether greenhouses are a viable option for generating household income and which forms of family economic participation and sexual division of labor prevail. It also examines whether access to financial resources, age, and educational attainment give wives greater say in decision-making and freedom of movement, comparing them with wives engaged in paid and unpaid non-farm activities in the same town.
CommunityEconomicsFood sovereignty & justice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.
PolicyCommunity(224) In Situ N Monitoring for Safe Leafy Vegetables using Quick and Advanced Tools
2005H. Chin, M.C. Palada · HortScience · Southeast Asia
A study developed a simple, rapid method for measuring nitrate-N accumulation against a backdrop of heavy nitrogen fertilizer use in intensive leafy vegetable production in peri-urban Southeast Asia. Five vegetables—amaranth, kangkong, Ethiopian kale, choysum, and leafy lettuce—were grown under eight N fertilizer levels from 0 to 350 kg/ha applied in three splits, with nitrate-N in leaf, petiole, and whole-plant sap measured using a Cardy nitrate meter and chlorophyll measured with a chlorophyll meter. Nitrate accumulation varied by species: at 200 kg/ha N, Ethiopian kale was highest (7,000 ppm), followed by kangkong (4,000 ppm), amaranth (3,500 ppm), and leafy lettuce (1,200 ppm), with significant correlations (P < 0.001) between fertilizer rate and nitrate content and between leaf chlorophyll and yield.
HealthPeri-urban agriculturePlanificacion holistica de saneamiento ecologico en ciudades pequenas: El programa piloto TepozEco
2005Ron Sawyer, Anne Delmaire, Andrés A. Buenfil · · Mexico
A study shares initial experiences from TepozEco, a pilot program for holistic ecological sanitation planning in Tepoztlan, Mexico, which includes promoting ecological toilets, water demand and greywater management, rainwater harvesting, organic waste recycling, urban agriculture, and environmental education. The project's initial phase is described as encouraging, attributed mainly to an iterative, flexible, and responsive design process—adaptive planning—and a close network of partners and collaborators; while the local context is in some respects unique, particularly regarding institutional resources, local environmental awareness, and local government commitment, the municipality's socioeconomic conditions reflect those of much of Latin America, suggesting TepozEco could serve as an ecological sanitation model for a significant part of Mexico, Central America, and South America.
CompostOrganic cycleFood educationCommunitySt 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.
CommunityPolicyAssessment of New Approaches to Food Security in West Oakland
2005Nicholaus K Harris · · United States (California)
An assessment in West Oakland, California, evaluated new community food programs — community gardens, mobile markets and local farmers markets — that went beyond typical food banks to address food insecurity. In spring 2005, the researcher interviewed program leaders and 45 West Oakland residents. Results showed residents were generally aware of how to eat healthily but unable to do so because of limited proximity to vendors stocking healthy foods; many used the farmers market, but few relied on the other community food programs, and residents living close to the farmers market and community gardens benefited more than those elsewhere. The study concludes that educational campaigns and the placement of additional food programs are needed to improve access.
CommunityWelfareEconomicsOpportunities 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.
CommunityEconomicsPolicyEvaluating the Value of Urban Agricultural Leisure Landscape by Contingent Valuation Method——Sampled by the Urban Agriculture Construction of Yang Ling National Hi-tech Industrial Park
2005Niu Jun-rang, Liu Cang, Hou Jun-qi · Zhongguo nongye ke-ji daobao · China
Based on survey data from randomly selected tourists visiting Yang Ling, China, collected using the contingent valuation method (CVM), this paper gathers information on willingness to pay for the visit and its influencing factors, and quantitatively analyzes the development of urban agriculture. On this basis, the leisure function of the Yang Ling Agricultural Landscape Park is valued at RMB 52.42 million. The paper also offers recommendations for future use of the CVM.
EconomicsCommunityQualidade de água usada na agricultura urbana na cidade do Recife
2005Vicente de Paula, Mário T. Kato, Lourdinha Florêncio · Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental · Brazil
A study evaluated the physicochemical and bacteriological quality of water used to irrigate vegetables in an urban agriculture area along the BR-101 southern ring road in Recife, Brazil. Water samples were collected from six existing wells in the agricultural area during the dry season, October to December 2003, and analyzed for physicochemical parameters (electrical conductivity, Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+, Cl-, HCO3-, nitrate-N, ammonium-N, pH, and sodium adsorption ratio) and fecal coliform. The physicochemical quality of the irrigation water showed no risk of soil salinization or alkalinization, nor of specific toxicity to plants.
CommunityOrganic cycle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 linkageParticipación laboral y autonomía femenina en un contexto de agricultura urbana
2005Fernando Neira Orjuela · · Mexico
This study focuses on San Luis Tlaxialtemalco, a town of 12,553 people in the Xochimilco delegation in southern Mexico City. Because the town practices urban agriculture, a survey of 185 households provided an opportunity to examine whether greenhouses are a viable option for generating household income, and the forms of family economic participation and sexual division of labor that shape this. The study also sought to clarify whether access to economic resources, age, and schooling grant wives the final say in household decision-making and freedom of movement, comparing them with wives engaged in salaried and non-salaried non-agricultural activities.
CommunityWelfareEconomicsFood sovereignty & justiceThe (Re) Production of Gendered Positionality in Botswana's Commercial Urban Agriculture Sector
2005Alice J. Hovorka · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · Africa
This study empirically examines the effects of gender on commercial urban agriculture in Greater Gaborone, Botswana, using a conceptual framework bridging sociospatial and human-environment geography. It found that gender clearly shapes both the quantity and type of foodstuffs produced for the urban market, with men and women farmers entering production and participating in this economic sector on unequal terms defined by socioeconomic status, location, and environmental interaction. The study argues that gender relations of power, as produced through sociospatial and human-environment relations, remain an unequal structuring force in the sector that must be accounted for if urban agriculture is to support food security and economic growth.
Equity & displacementCommunityEconomicsUrban agriculture and local sustainable development in Rosario, Argentina: integration of economic, social, technical and environmental variables.
2005Eduardo Spiaggi · · Global
Research conducted in the Empalme Graneros neighbourhood of Rosario, Argentina, a city of 1.1 million people located in the Pampa Húmeda region where the country's main agricultural production is concentrated. The abstract provided states only the study location and does not report methods, measurements, or findings.
CommunityEconomicsAGRICULTURA 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.
PolicyCommunityWelfareA STUDY ON URBAN AGRICULTURE TOURISM DEVELOPMRNT IN GUANGZHOU
2005Wenjun Chen · Tropical Geography · China
Urban agriculture tourism is described as a new trend combining urban agriculture and urban tourism and a focal point for research on sustainable urban development because of its social, economic and ecological functions. Urban agriculture tourism in Guangzhou is characterized by rapid growth, a high starting point, large scale and favorable returns, but also faces problems including lack of planning, similar/repetitive projects, weak cultural content, low levels of science and technology, absence of well-known brands, and disorderly development. The paper proposes developing four types of tourism — facility agriculture tourism, gardening agriculture tourism, recreational agriculture tourism and agricultural museum tourism — planned rationally across four zones (northern mountainous areas, mid-urban agricultural regions, mid-suburb gardens and southern coastal areas), and puts forward several measures.
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