Community and home gardens increase vegetable intake and food security of residents in San Jose, California

Algert, Susan; Diekmann, Lucy; Renvall, Marian; Gray, L. E.

doi:10.3733/ca.v070n02p77

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“…Alaimo et al [29], Litt et al [30] and Algert et al [40] quantified the changes in the vegetables and fruit uptake of household members, in terms of number of daily portions, before and after participating in community gardens or having their own home garden. Sanyé-Mengual et al [41] assessed the sustainability potential of home gardens from a food security perspective, where the assessed home garden represented economic savings for the household and satisfied the annual vegetable requirements of between 1 and 2 people.…”

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Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Orsini²,

Gianquinto³

2018

Sustainability

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Urban Food Production (UFP) initiatives are expanding worldwide to enhance urban food production while contributing to the development of sustainable cities in a three-bottom perspective (environment, society, economy). Although the sustainability aspects of UFS have been addressed in the literature, there is a need to set a sustainability framework for UFP based on the concepts and the understanding of the stakeholders as a basis for quantifying their sustainability and for developing effective policy-making. This paper evaluates the concepts of the UFP sustainability from a stakeholders' perspective through participatory methods and network analyses. Two different workshops were organized in the city of Bologna (Italy), where mind-mapping exercises to define the environmental, economic and social sustainability elements of UFP were performed. This bottom-up approach unveiled a comprehensive and complex vision of sustainable UFP, the relevance of certain sustainability elements and key aspects to take into consideration for the development of UFP and effective policy-making. The existence of bidimensional and tridimensional concepts indicated priorities, synergies and trade-offs among the dimensions of sustainability. The multi-scalar nature of UFP suggested that specific policies can be supported by global schemes (e.g., Sustainable Development Goals) and that UFP can be a local tool for democracy and equity at lower scales.

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Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Orsini²,

Gianquinto³

2018

Sustainability

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“…La Mesa Verde is community-based organization that works with low-income Latinos/as to build backyard vegetable gardens, increase food access, and strengthen community ties (Gray et al 2014;Algert et al 2016). The Health Trust is leading another local example that recently produced a sophisticated report combining GIS analysis by Fulfrost & Associates with social research by Calise and Bateman to suggest strategies to better target food assistance serving two of San Jose's most vulnerable populations, low-income seniors and homeless individuals.…”

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The rise of food banks and the challenge of matching food assistance with potential need: towards a spatially specific, rapid assessment approach

Bacon

Baker

2017

Agric Hum Values

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“…Less eco-efficient varieties may be substituted by new crops in the garden to diversify the harvest, as polyculture home gardens are beneficial towards ensuring food security and improving healthy diet habits [80]. On the other hand, leguminous crops were the most impacting ones in environmental terms among the fruit crops.…”

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Eco-Efficiency Assessment and Food Security Potential of Home Gardening: A Case Study in Padua, Italy

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Abstract:In the expanding urban agriculture phenomenon in Europe, home gardens are a traditional form that have kept agriculture within cities, even becoming crucial in certain historical periods (e.g., war periods). However, horticultural practices in home gardens can also have negative consequences. The goal of this paper is to assess the eco-efficiency of home gardens as a type of urban agriculture. To do so, a case study in Padua (Italy) was evaluated following life cycle assessment and life cycle costing methods. A home garden of 30.6 m 2 and 21 crop cycles were evaluated. The functional unit of the assessment was 1 kg of harvested fresh vegetable at the consumption point, and the ReCiPe method was employed for impact assessment. Environmental assessment indicated that organic fertilization, use of tap water, mineral fertilization and pesticides were the most contributing elements of the entire life cycle. Furthermore, the relevance of garden design and crop selection was a determinant in the eco-efficiency results. The assessed home garden could satisfy the food requirements of between 1 and 2 members of the household. Crop management and design recommendations are provided to improve eco-efficiency and food security potential of home gardens.

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Community and home gardens increase vegetable intake and food security of residents in San Jose, California

Cited by 86 publications

References 22 publications

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

The rise of food banks and the challenge of matching food assistance with potential need: towards a spatially specific, rapid assessment approach

Eco-Efficiency Assessment and Food Security Potential of Home Gardening: A Case Study in Padua, Italy

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