Food security and edible plant cultivation in the urban gardens of socially disadvantaged families in the municipality of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Medeiros, Natália Sant’Anna de; Carmo, Davi Lopes do; Priore, Sílvia Eloíza; Santos, Ricardo Henrique Silva; Pinto, Carina Aparecida

doi:10.1007/s10668-017-0078-7

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“…Villares de Carvalho e Nella Branduini (2017) registraram que em Recife, nordeste brasileiro, 38% da produção alimentar urbana é utilizada para autoconsumo. Para as famílias socialmente desfavorecidas no Brasil, as hortas urbanas podem complementar suas dietas, fornecendo à família uma variedade de alimentos saudáveis e nutritivos (de Medeiros et al, 2018). Aliadas as políticas públicas as hortas urbanas possuem uma importância ímpar na efetivação do direito humano a alimentação, proporcionando alimentos saudáveis, de qualidade e acessível à comunidade (Siqueira et al, 2019).…”

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Pode a agricultura urbana contribuir para o desenvolvimento de cidades e comunidades sustentáveis?

Savian

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2021

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Que a agricultura é praticada nas cidades é um fato, porém poucos estudos tem a finalidade de compreender esse fenômeno e as suas contribuições para o desenvolvimento socioambiental. Objetivou-se analisar a contribuição da agricultura urbana no desenvolvimento sustentável das cidades e comunidades. A metodologia consistiu na análise de artigos científicos publicados em periódicos indexados, entre o período de 2009 e 2019, que tinham como foco o estudo da agricultura urbana no Brasil. Foram acessados 667 artigos, dos quais 40 atenderam critérios de inclusão. Os estudos selecionados foram desenvolvidos em 12 estados brasileiros e envolveram 123 pesquisadores. Os resultados demonstram que a agricultura urbana é realizada em todas as regiões do Brasil, apresenta características multifuncionais diferenciadas, possui papel importante na manutenção da agrobiodiversidade e auxilia na segurança alimentar e nutricional. Além disso a agricultura urbana é um componente importante nas relações econômicas, sociais e ecológicas das cidades e pode gerar benefício aos espaços urbanos, promover a saúde e auxiliar nos processos educacionais. Concluímos que a agricultura urbana tem potencialidade para ser adotada como uma estratégia no desenvolvimento de cidades e comunidades sustentáveis.

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Section: Características Da Agricultura Urbana Brasileiraunclassified

Pode a agricultura urbana contribuir para o desenvolvimento de cidades e comunidades sustentáveis?

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2021

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“…Five main barriers for UA development were found in the literature review. First, the lack of access to land and tenure insecurity were indicated as major barriers [25,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. Indeed, not owning the land urban farmers worked on put them in a land insecurity situation, that impeded their investment, given the risk of non-compliance of mandatory reimbursements.…”

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“…Fourth, the limited access to production factors such as fertilizer, clean water, knowledge and capital formed a constraint for farmers to develop their gardens productively [25,[27][28][29][30][31][32]34,35,[38][39][40]42,44,46,47]. It was indicated that restricted access in freshwater resources was a severe problem to practice urban farming.…”

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“…We noted a positive correlation between the access to and the ownership of land and the scale of the production system. Second, farming efficiency was a driving factor towards UA implementation [26,[31][32][33]38,43,47,49]. Indeed, improved production systems, where fewer inputs (fertilizer, water) were used, were a motivating factor for urban farmers to develop large farms [47].…”

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What Constraints the Expansion of Urban Agriculture in Benin?

2020

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Propelled by rapid urbanization, city administrations in low- and middle-income countries face a raft of challenges to secure food and nutrition for its poor urban dwellers. Urban agriculture (UA) seems a viable intervention to address urban food insecurity, however, experience has shown that urban gardens do not expand at the expected rate. Tackling this issue requires a deeper understanding of the main constraints that block UA expansion. Benin is not an exception; the country witnesses a breathtaking growth of its main cities that is in synchronization with a mounting food insecurity. Our research aims, therefore, to identify the main constraints for the expansion of UA in Benin, and adopt a three-pronged approach combined with a systematic literature review, a survey held among experienced urban gardeners, and in-depth interviews with stakeholders. Altogether, the synthesis shows a predominance of five main constraints: lack of land and tenure insecurity, insufficient government support, restricted market access, limited access to productive factors, and inequality issues. Specifically, while the review showed that most barriers are linked and could be tackled together, the survey indicated a political unwillingness which in our in-depth interviews is explained by the unperceived benefits of investing in UA and the lack of enforcement of urban development plans. We suggest that Beninese authorities and academics move in synchronization where the former coordinates the planning of urban gardens and the latter provides evidence to trigger public and private investments in UA. The findings could be the basis for further research on UA in West Africa and the wider continent.

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“…Compared with developed countries, most developing countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Nepal implemented edible landscape projects to provide high-quality food supply [3,16,36]. Many housewives were engaged in community and family farming to get crops and fresh food [6,12,13,55], so they expected the horticulture infrastructures to be improved in order to enhance food production [3,43]. However, in China, though suffering from food insecurity, urban residents generally believed that growing edible plants in cities serves only to promote land-use efficiency and visual effect and couldn't fully accept the benefit of food production (Table 3); thus, they only planted some vegetables and small fruit trees in their courtyard and on their balcony, as no public places were planned and provided ( Figure 5).…”

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Residents’ Attention and Awareness of Urban Edible Landscapes: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

Xie

Yang

2019

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More and more urban residents in China have suffered from food insecurity and failed to meet the national recommendation of daily fruit and vegetable consumption due to rapid urbanization in recent years. Introducing edible landscapes to urban greening systems represents an opportunity for improving urban food supply and security. However, residents' opinion on urban edible landscapes has rarely been discussed. In this study, questionnaire surveys were performed in eight sample communities in Wuhan, China, to collect the information on residents' attention and awareness of urban edible landscapes. Results indicated that nearly one-third of the respondents were unaware of edible landscapes before the interview. Most residents thought that an edible landscape could promote efficient land use (57.26%) and express special ornamental effects (54.64%), but quite a few didn't believe that growing edible plants in urban public spaces could increase food output (37.10%) and improve food quality (40.12%). Overall, 45.65% and 32.73% of the growers performed their cultivation behavior in private and semiprivate spaces, respectively. Lack of public areas for agriculture use was regarded as the main barrier restricting the development of urban horticulture by 55.86% of growers and 59.51% of non-growers. The residents were also worried about their property manager's opposition, possible conflicts, and complex relationships with their neighbors. Food policies and infrastructure support from local governments and official institutions were needed to ensure the successful implementation of edible landscapes in urban areas.

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Food security and edible plant cultivation in the urban gardens of socially disadvantaged families in the municipality of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Pode a agricultura urbana contribuir para o desenvolvimento de cidades e comunidades sustentáveis?

Pode a agricultura urbana contribuir para o desenvolvimento de cidades e comunidades sustentáveis?

What Constraints the Expansion of Urban Agriculture in Benin?

Residents’ Attention and Awareness of Urban Edible Landscapes: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

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