Food Deserts, Libraries, and Urban Communities: What Is the Connection?

Overbey, Tracey

doi:10.1080/01616846.2019.1591156

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“…Economic gardening is a developmental approach that seeks to develop an economy in a gradual and sustainable manner by harnessing the resources within the country and providing tremendous support for the growth and expansion of local businesses (Taabazuing, Arku, & Mkandawire, 2015;Mazzarol & Clark, 2016;Overbey, 2019). First developed in the 1980s by Chris Gibbons in the town of Littleton, Colorado, it was adopted by many other states in the country due to its effectiveness in creating new jobs and ensuring continued development of the economy over time (Breazeale et al, 2015;Assenza, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on the Entrepreneurial Intention of Nigerian Entrepreneurship Students

Amuda¹,

Zubairu²,

Ibrahim³

et al. 2019

IJE

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This study investigated the impact of entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial intentions (EI) of students enrolled at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Studies located in the Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria. It employed a cross-section survey design using a questionnaire adapted from Turker Selcuk (2009). A comparison of the mean EI scores of 82 final-year and 68 second-year students revealed that there was no significant difference in entrepreneurial intentions between the two groups of students. This implied that the curriculum of the department needed to be revised, and that a policy of mandating entrepreneurship education at the university level was insufficient to address the alarming youth unemployment problem in Nigeria.

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Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on the Entrepreneurial Intention of Nigerian Entrepreneurship Students

Amuda¹,

Zubairu²,

Ibrahim³

et al. 2019

IJE

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“…Since this garden started at the public library in Goldsboro, North Carolina, the idea of a library hosting a community garden has spread to other locations across the U.S. WebJunction has tracked this trend and lists as exemplars at least 17 examples from across the country (Peterson, 2016). Local news stories and library websites also highlight library community gardens in Iowa (Jordan-Heintz, 2018), Illinois (Abron, 2015), and Ohio (Overby & Mullins, 2018;Trivisonno, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Food Justice in the Public Library: Information, Resources, and Meals

Lenstra

D'Arpa

2019

IJIDI

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Access to healthy, nutritious, and affordable food—food justice—is foundational to a healthy community. Yet, hundreds of millions of people, including one in eight in the U.S., lack this access. This article examines how public libraries participate in the food justice movement. This emerging role is contextualized within the history of public food programs in the U.S. A literature review then finds four ways that public libraries increase access to food: distributing food; teaching and enabling community-based agriculture; teaching how to cook, prepare, and eat healthy foods; and supporting existing food justice programs. These tactics are reviewed within the context of the information and communication channels typically used by practicing public librarians. The article concludes with a discussion of future research and education initiatives needed to understand and support public libraries as contributors to food and health justice. In particular, the authors suggest that LIS scholars would do well to establish research collaborations across disciplinary boundaries to build on work currently being done in fields like public health and environmental studies on how public libraries and librarians contribute to food justice. Just as public libraries in certain places have found ways to form powerful community partnerships focused on contributing to food justice, we suggest that in higher education we could also start and join similar multi-disciplinary networks in our scholarship and teaching.

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“…In a nut shell, it follows the following process: Locate local entrepreneurs, and then equip them with the information, strategies and resources they need to stay and grow in the community. The long-term results are sustainable economic development and improvement in the quality of life of the local community (Adikhari et al, 2018;Cowell et al, 2018;Overbey, 2019). This is exactly what Nigeria's local governments need, especially considering the fact that their development has been neglected for decades largely due to entrenched corruption amongst the political leadership of these local governments.…”

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Developing A Nigerian Local Government Through Economic Gardening: A Roadmap

Zubairu

Kolo²,

Umar³

et al. 2019

scj

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Economic Gardening is an innovative economic development strategy whereby local businesses are fostered and encouraged, and the skills of local workers are upgraded. Since its inception in Littleton, Colorado in 1989, this concept has been put forward by various scholars as a viable and more sustainable economic development strategy than the traditional business attraction strategy. Various implementation experiences have provided further evidence of its effectiveness in improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of a community. This paper charts a roadmap for the development and future implementation of an economic gardening strategy for a Nigerian local government whose officials have shown an interest in adopting such a strategy. A seven-step process was adopted from a review of economic gardening scholarship: 1) Working hand-in-hand with local government officials and other stakeholders, 2) Identifying the community’s assets, 3) Developing a collaborative effort amongst all stakeholders, 4) Developing a clear and transparent operating agreement, 5) Identifying the key targets for services, 6) Developing an effective way to deliver these services, and 7) Communicating regularly with the community so as to gain and retain their support. A lack of political will and a lack of adequate infrastructure were identified as the two biggest obstacles to the successful implementation of the economic gardening strategy in the local government. The first obstacle was mitigated by the fact that it was the local government officials who approached our team to develop the strategy, whilst the second obstacle was mitigated by a proposal for the development of a solar farm within the local government via a public-private partnership with an international solar firm. It is hoped that a successful implementation of this strategy will improve the lives of the inhabitants of the local government and serve as an example for other Nigerian local governments.

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Food Deserts, Libraries, and Urban Communities: What Is the Connection?

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on the Entrepreneurial Intention of Nigerian Entrepreneurship Students

Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on the Entrepreneurial Intention of Nigerian Entrepreneurship Students

Food Justice in the Public Library: Information, Resources, and Meals

Developing A Nigerian Local Government Through Economic Gardening: A Roadmap

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