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Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.
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Empowering Communities
2019Ellis Cose · · United States (New York City)
This descriptive piece discusses U.S. community energy initiatives as expressions of local self-determination, citing the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association in New York's South Bronx and the Bronx Frontier Development Corporation, founded by a community activist grandmother, which began by converting vacant lots into community gardens; it also cites the Washington-based Center for Renewable Resources' catalogue of roughly 1,800 community energy projects, supported in part by the Community Services Administration and private foundations.
CommunityDIYPolicyMadrid to go
2019Inés Melón Izco · · Spain
"Madrid To Go" is an architectural design proposal for an intermodal transit station in Madrid, Spain, positioned above existing rail platforms to connect two neighborhoods historically divided by the rail yard, combining a covered, climate-controlled station with a food market and a strip of urban gardens intended primarily for cultural, educational, leisure and awareness purposes, with the roof shape referencing the profile of the Sierra de Madrid visible from Chamartín.
CommunityPolicyFood educationExternally
2019Etienne Louis Nel · · South Africa
A 2019 book chapter examines community-based Local Economic Development (LED) in South Africa through three authority-based cases: Kei Road, the Independent Development Trust project, and East London. In Kei Road, a small rural service centre near Bisho in the Eastern Cape, the organization Eyethu launched a community-gardens project to promote household self-sufficiency and small-scale farming, and also runs a women's bulk-buying co-operative to reduce household costs. In 1993, Kei Road again drew attention when refugee numbers temporarily swelled due to people fleeing a faction fight in the neighboring village of Kwarini.
CommunityEconomicsWelfarePolicyPemanfaatan Keterbatasan Lahan untuk Ruang Terbuka Hijau di Kampung Luar Batang
2019Budijanto Chandra, Titin Fatimah · Seminar Nasional Pembangunan Wilayah dan Kota Berkelanjutan · Indonesia
A 2019 study examines green open space (RTH) development under land constraints in Kampung Luar Batang, a historic settlement in Jakarta located within the Kota Tua heritage district and home to the Luar Batang Mosque and the tomb of Habib Husein. The densely settled, unplanned kampung is prone to tidal flooding; using a qualitative descriptive method with observation and interviews focused on RW 02, the study proposes hydroponic and aquaponic (combined with catfish farming) urban farming as forms of green space suited to the area's limited land and irrigation water.
CommunityPolicyUnderstanding the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations Associated with Community Gardening to Improve Environmental Public Health Prevention and Intervention
2019Mónica D. Ramírez‐Andreotta, Abigail Tapper, Diamond Clough, Jennifer S. Carrera, Shana Sandhaus · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · United States
Through semi-structured interviews with 17 community gardeners in the Boston area, this study characterized gardeners' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, their perceptions of soil quality and environmental responsibility, awareness of past land use, and gardening behavior. Gardeners reported knowledge of their garden's historical past and concerns about soil quality, theft, trash maintenance, animal waste, and produce loss to foraging animals. The findings are reported as directly informing environmental health exposure assessment by documenting gardening duration, activities that can lead to incidental soil ingestion, and consumption patterns of locally grown produce.
CommunityHealthPolicy커뮤니티 주도 미세먼지 저감 방안 - 영국 런던 미세먼지 저감형 커뮤니티 가든을 사례로 -
2019남진보, 김근호 · · United Kingdom
This 2019 study examined community-led gardens for particulate matter (PM) abatement in London, UK, as case studies for addressing PM problems, using place-keeping theory as its analytical framework and analyzing the gardens' management structures. It found that strong governance backed by local policy support is key to addressing PM issues, alongside stakeholder partnerships, community-generated supplementary funding, regular evaluation through community monitoring, and long-term maintenance. The study concludes that community garden management should take a self-sustaining structure built on strong governance, and recommends policies that encourage community involvement in decision-making, expand external funding including from private and business sectors, provide PM-monitoring tools and education (for example via universities), and plant low-maintenance vegetation to sustain gardens against funding and labor shortages.
CommunityPolicyBiodiversityGuerrilla gardening and green activism: Rethinking the informal urban growing movement
2018Hardman M., Chipungu L., Magidimisha H., Larkham P.J., Scott A.J., Armitage R.P. · Landscape and Urban Planning, 170:6-14 · Global
Reviews informal urban-growing (guerrilla gardening) practices across Europe, North America and Africa, showing how in Salford, UK, local authorities have begun tolerating and even encouraging informal growing. It rethinks how a movement of residents greening and growing food on gap spaces and vacant land without permission can be integrated into urban planning and green-space policy.
CommunityPolicyBiodiversity都市農地の貸借の円滑化に関する法律の概要
2018· 農林水産省 · Japan
Official explanation of the 2018 Urban Farmland Lease Facilitation Act, which lets motivated urban farmers, companies, and NPOs lease productive greenland to cultivate or open community farms, excludes statutory lease renewal, and preserves the inheritance-tax deferral after leasing.
PolicyEconomicsCommunityResilience with Mixed Agricultural and Urban Land Uses in Tokyo, Japan
2018Sioen G.B., Terada T., Sekiyama M., Yokohari M. · Sustainability 10(2):435 · Japan
Using GIS grid-cell analysis, the study quantified vegetable-weight and key-nutrient self-sufficiency for each land-use pattern in Tokyo, showing how mixed agricultural and urban land uses contribute to resilience. Tokyo's fruit-and-vegetable self-sufficiency was estimated at 4.27% currently with a potential of 11.73%.
PolicyEconomicsCommunity低未利用土地利用促進協定
2018国土交通省 · 国土交通省 · Japan
Under the Urban Renaissance Act, municipalities and owners of low-/under-used land can agree to develop and manage it temporarily as plazas, community gardens and greenery — part of Japan's response to urban 'sponging'.
PolicyCommunity'The dissolution of cities': the Horseshoe settlement in Weimar Berlin
2018Barykina N. · Urban History (Cambridge University Press) · Germany
Analyzes Berlin's Horseshoe Estate (Hufeisensiedlung) by Taut and Wagner, examining how Weimar public-housing policy, new technologies, bureaucracy, and garden-city ideals shaped this modernist Siedlung as both aesthetic vision and social environment.
PolicyCommunityWelfareSocial perception of urban agriculture in Latin-America. A case study in Mexican social housing
2018Nadal A., Cerón-Palma I., García-Gómez C., Pérez-Sánchez M., Rodríguez-Labajos B., Cuerva E., Josa A., Rieradevall J. · Land Use Policy 76:719-734 · Mexico
Through interviews with 65 stakeholders in Mérida's social housing, this study analyzes social perceptions of urban agriculture in low-income Latin American settings, exploring its potential for safe, nutritious food supply and social benefits.
CommunityWelfarePolicyIndia's peri-urban frontier: rural-urban transformations and food security
2018Vij S., Narain V., Karpouzoglou T., Mishra P. · IIED Working Paper, International Institute for Environment and Development · India
This paper examines rural-urban transformations in India's neglected peri-urban areas in relation to food production, access, consumption, and nutritional quality, arguing peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to pro-poor food security and poverty alleviation.
WelfarePolicyEconomics大都市郊外住宅地の再生における民間企業の参画に関する研究 －企業・住民・行政へのインタビュー調査を中心に－
2018平江 良成, 小泉 秀樹, 後藤 智香子 · 都市計画報告集 17巻2号 pp.195-201 · Japan
With an author from Tokyu Corporation, this interview-based study analyzes how private firms participate in suburban housing-area regeneration and the conditions required, arguing that developers must engage through composite services including community facilities and new business formats.
CommunityPolicyEconomics空家活用等による「東京クラインガルテン」実現方策検討調査 報告書
2018国土交通省 都市局, 八王子市「東京クラインガルテン」検討協議会 · 国土交通省 都市と緑・農が共生するまちづくりに関する調査 · Japan
Using Hachioji as a case, this MLIT report examines leveraging private vitality for vacant homes, farmland, and green space, including site visits and interviews on corporate kitchen gardens and business simulations for rental gardens around housing areas and danchi.
PolicyCommunityEconomics農業経営・交流の両面からみた農業体験農園の役割─東京都練馬区農業体験農園を事例として─
2018藤井 至, 稲葉 修武, 藤田 武弘 · 農業市場研究 27巻1号 pp.12- · Japan
Based on hearings with all Nerima experience-farm operators and user surveys, this paper analyzes how publicly subsidised experience farms support farm management and community exchange, empirically showing effects on profitability, successors and local understanding.
CommunityEconomicsFood educationPolicyElderly名古屋市農業振興基本方針 なごやアグリライフプラン
2018名古屋市 · 名古屋市 農業振興基本方針 · Japan
Nagoya's basic urban agriculture policy positioning publicly operated citizen farms — Nogomi, community and Minori gardens — and resident-farmer connections as core pillars of municipal support.
PolicyCommunityFood educationEconomicsH29年度 都市と農・緑が共生するまちづくりに関する調査 都市部未利用地のコミュニティ農園活用方策検討調査 報告書
2018特定非営利活動法人 Co.to.hana, 金田 康孝 · 国土交通省 都市と農・緑が共生するまちづくりに関する調査（平成29年度） · Japan (Osaka)
Co.to.hana's second-year MLIT study codifying how to reproduce Minna-no-uen's effects — activity data analysis since 2011, international comparables, intermediary-organisation needs, trial social-impact metrics, published as this report and at minnanouen.jp/research.
PolicyCommunityEconomicsDIYBiodiversityUrban and peri-urban agriculture in the EU
2018European Parliament Research Service · European Parliament — In-Depth Analysis IPOL_STU(2018)617468 · Europe
A comparative analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture policy across EU member states, systematizing the impacts and challenges of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on urban farming and offering policy implications for EU-wide support.
PolicyLinking Multifunctionality and Sustainability for Valuing Peri-Urban Farming: A Case Study in the Turin Metropolitan Area
2018Gullino P., Battisti L., Larcher F. · Sustainability (MDPI) 10(5), 1625 · Italy
Evaluates the multifunctionality of peri-urban farming in the Turin metropolitan area from a sustainability perspective, presenting a method to quantify multifunctional values across food production, landscape, ecosystems and socio-culture.
PolicyBiodiversityCall for projects "Parisculteurs": catalyst for urban agriculture development on rooftops in Paris
2018Collé M., Daniel A.C., Aubry C. · Acta Horticulturae (International Symposium on Greener Cities for More Efficient Ecosystem Services in a Climate Changing World) · France (Paris)
Analysis of Paris's 'Parisculteurs' call-for-projects program based on 11-month participatory research, showing how the initiative catalyzed rooftop urban agriculture with over 48 projects on public and private buildings by 2018.
PolicyCommunityEconomicsHybrid governance tensions fuelling self-reflexivity in Alternative Food Networks: the case of the Brussels GASAP (solidarity purchasing groups for peasant agriculture)
2018Manganelli A., Moulaert F. · Local Environment · Belgium (Brussels)
Applies a Hybrid Governance Approach to the Brussels GASAP solidarity purchasing network, identifying three phases in its development and demonstrating how organizational, resource, and institutional tensions drive self-reflexivity and scaling dynamics in Alternative Food Networks.
CommunityPolicyEconomicsUrban Gardens in Greece: A New Way of Living in the City
2018Haniotou H., Dalipi E. · In: Glatron S., Granchamp L. (eds) The Urban Garden City: Shaping the City with Gardens Through History. Springer, Cham, pp. 245–268 · Greece
The chapter surveys the proliferation of urban community gardens across Greek metropolitan areas, situating their emergence in the context of economic crisis and examining their effects on urban residents' livelihoods and relationship to green space.
CommunityPolicyWelfareEconomicsIs urban agriculture urban green space? A comparison of policy arrangements for urban green space and urban agriculture in Santiago de Chile
2018Contesse M., van Vliet B.J.M., Lenhart J. · Land Use Policy · Chile (Santiago)
This study used the policy arrangement approach to compare urban green space planning and urban agriculture policies in Santiago, finding that urban agriculture can complement (but not replace) parks as green space, provided that policy mechanisms clarify stakeholder roles and benefits.
PolicyCommunityBiodiversityUrban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city
2018Nathan McClintock · Geography Compass · United States
This review proposes that the lens of "racial capitalism" can illuminate the contradictory motivations and outcomes of urban agriculture (UA). It examines how UA can contribute to racial Othering, the racialization of space, and dispossession on the one hand, while enabling struggles of resistance and self-determination on the other. The author uses this framework to address how settler-colonial logics persist in the contemporary North American city.
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