Conceptualizing Community Buy-in and Its Application to Urban Farming

Poulsen, Melissa N.; Spiker, Marie L.; Winch, Peter J.

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2014.051.014

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“…In this early innovation phase, the social acceptability of urban agriculture will become relevant to the successful introduction and implementation of urban agriculture in urban social and spatial environments. Previous studies have revealed that a lack of acceptance by relevant stakeholders or targeted communities can be a major limiting factor in the implementation of urban agriculture (Poulsen et al 2014;Sanyé-Mengual 2015c;Specht et al 2015b) Our hypothesis is that some characteristics of urban food production may provoke negative responses from potential consumers and that, for a project initiator, whether a project or the envisaged products for sale will be approved by the addressed consumers is uncertain. In the event of low acceptance by the targeted group, products may not be purchased and projects might fail.…”

Section: Analytical Framework and Levels Of Investigationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Socially acceptable urban agriculture businesses

Specht

Weith

Swoboda

et al. 2016

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The rise of successful entrepreneurs in urban agriculture has attracted global interest. Here, we hypothesized that societal preferences and the acceptability of urban agriculture projects and products are ruling the success or failure of urban agriculture businesses. We surveyed 386 urban participants in Berlin, Germany, to identify general preferences for the productive use of urban space, the acceptance of different urban agriculture forms, and demands and expectations regarding urban agriculture products. The results show first that more than 80 % of the respondents preferred having accessible systems such as public green spaces, intercultural gardens, and rooftop gardens. Indeed, land uses that do not provide accessibility such as meadows, aquaponic farms, or intensive agricultural and horticultural landscapes showed lower acceptance, of less than 40 %. Second, 60 % of participants expressed acceptance of rooftop farming, agriculture in the urban fringe, or in inner-city brownfields, whereas 65 % rejected to have agriculture in multi-story buildings, agroparks, or aquaponic farms. Third, more than 50 % are willing to buy horticultural products, but they reject products from intensive production systems and animal-farming mechanisms, with more than 70 % rejection for animal products. Overall, this is the first study to investigate entrepreneurial urban agriculture possibilities from the perspective of potential consumers. The main insight is that the highest degree of acceptance is reached for multifunctional urban agriculture that combines commercial with ecological and social goals.As a consequence, projects that are purely production-driven or technologically intensive are more likely to be rejected.

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Section: Analytical Framework and Levels Of Investigationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Socially acceptable urban agriculture businesses

Specht

Weith

Swoboda

et al. 2016

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

120

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“…Communication has been allied with public buy-in. A large body of literature has demonstrated the importance of public buy-in (which involves the trust, acceptance, and support of local residents) to the success, survival, and effectiveness of community projects and public health interventions (Kahn et al, 2002;Maibach & Holtgrave, 1995;Poulsen, Spiker, & Winch, 2014). In Eritrea, buy-in has increased trust, reduced community resistance or reticence, and encouraged compliance with national policies and various public health and safety guidance.…”

Section: Clear Communication and Public Buy-inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Factors Contributing to Eritrea’s Successful COVID-19 Response

Amahazion¹

2021

JSS

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the greatest global crises in decades. To date, around the world tens of millions of cases have been confirmed, nearly two million people have died, and the livelihoods of billions have been greatly affected. While COVID-19 has been a truly global problem, infection and death rates in many African countries have been much lower than originally feared. One COVID-19 success story is Eritrea, a young, developing country in Northeast Africa that, by late December 2020, reported less than 1000 positive cases and one death due to COVID-19. However, despite its relative success, little focus has been devoted to Eritrea's response. How did it manage to keep COVID-19 at bay and what factors contributed to its success? Based on several different research methods, the present study finds that, notwithstanding limited resources, Eritrea has managed to respond to COVID-19 with relative efficiency and keep the virus at bay. The country's general success has been based upon a number of different factors.

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“…The level of buy-in in the pilot project was high, this most likely a result of the core ideas emanating from the participants themselves. "Science" in isolation can design a tight and interesting model, but if it is not functional for the people who aim to live with it, then ultimately it will not work in practice (Poulsen et al, 2014). The Palopuro AES has been a grassroots effort, rather than an innovation that came from the top down.…”

Section: Co-creation In the Palopuro Pilot Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regular people in place working with scientists to design a food production and processes system that served to improve the local foodscape, while fostering sustainability and livelihoods. Citizen science and knowledge co-production are the vital links between designing a sustainable food system in theory and practice (Poulsen et al, 2014).…”

Section: Co-creation In the Palopuro Pilot Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-creating Agroecological Symbioses (AES) for Sustainable Food System Networks

Helenius¹,

Hagolani-Albov²,

Koppelmäki³

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Critics of modern food systems argue for the need to shift from a consolidated and concentrated, often monoculture based agro-industrial model toward diversified, post-fossil, and nutrient recycling food systems. The abundance of acute and obvious environmental problems in the agricultural subsystems of the broader food system(s) have resulted in a focus on technological and natural scientific research into "solving" these point of production problems. Yet, there are many facets of food systems that are vital to sustainability which are not addressed even if the environmental problems were solved. In this article, we argue for agroecological symbiosis (AES) as a generic arrangement for re-configuring the primary production of food in agriculture, the processing of food, and development of a food community to work toward system-level sustainability. The guiding principle of this concept was the desire to base farming and food processing on renewable bioenergy, to close nutrient cycles, to break away from the consolidated food chain, to be more transparent and connected with consumers, and to revitalize the rural spaces where farms generally operate. Through a consistent and robust collaboration and co-creative process with transdisciplinary actors, ranging from food producers, and processers to policy actors, we designed a food system model based on networks of AES (NAES). The NAES would form place-based food networks, replacing the consolidated commodity chains. The NAES supports sustainable interactions from a biophysical and socio-cultural perspective. In this paper, we explain the AES concept, give an overview of the process of co-creating the pilot AES, and a proposal for the extension of the AES, as NAES, to create sustainable food systems. Overall, we conclude that the AES model holds potential for creating place-based food systems that further the sustainability agenda.

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Conceptualizing Community Buy-in and Its Application to Urban Farming

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Socially acceptable urban agriculture businesses

Socially acceptable urban agriculture businesses

Examining Factors Contributing to Eritrea’s Successful COVID-19 Response

Co-creating Agroecological Symbioses (AES) for Sustainable Food System Networks

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