Gardens and Dwelling: People in Vernacular Gardens

Kimber, Clarissa T.

doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2004.tb00173.x

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“…Heckler (2004) argues that sociality -the social function of the garden -is critical while others point to factors such as maintenance of cultural values and gender identity as the main reasons for homegarden maintenance (Keys, 1999;Slater, 2001;Greenberg, 2003;Kimber, 2004;Christie, 2004;Howard, 2006). Our findings substantiate these claims.…”

Section: Homegarden Agrodiversitysupporting

confidence: 82%

“…In many cities, both large and small, the rate of urbanization exceeds the ability of local economies to absorb new migrants into the urban wage labor sector, and consequently the need to rely on subsistence livelihood strategies in the city remains (Linares, 1996;Sanyal, 1985;Brunn et al, 2008;Armar-Klemesu and Maxwell, 2000;Browder and Godfrey, 2006;Foeken and Owuor, 2008). UA has been studied for a long time from both an academic as well as a development perspective Kimber, 2004). It is defined as "the growing of plants and the raising of animals within and around cities (…) [and] is integrated into the urban economic and ecological system" (RUAF Foundation, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

WinklerPrins

Oliveira²

2010

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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Urban agriculture, including urban homegardens, is vital for urban survival of many people in various cities around the world, including those in the Amazon region of Brazil. These spaces, through daily praxis, become important for incidental agrodiversity conservation as food plants are cultivated and their plant material circulated. Utilizing data from a year-long intensive qualitative study of 25 rural-urban migrant households, this article considers the diversity of plant material in urban homegardens in the Amazonian city of Santarém, Pará, Brazil. The purpose of the study was to understand the social systems that maintain cultivated plant diversity in homegardens. Our objectives in this article are twofold: a) to demonstrate that plant agrodiversity in homegardens persists in a setting which is located 'at the market'; and b) to document the ways in which flows of plant material help maintain this agrodiversity.Keywords: Homegardens. Agrodiversity. Santarém (PA). Amazon. Plant exchanges. Social networks.Resumo: A agricultura urbana, incluindo quintais urbanos, é vital para a sobrevivência de muitas pessoas em várias cidades ao redor do mundo, incluindo as da Amazônia brasileira. Esses espaços, por meio da prática cotidiana, tornam-se importantes para a conservação incidental da diversidade agrícola, enquanto áreas para cultivo de plantas alimentícias e de circulação de plantas. Utilizando dados de um ano de estudo qualitativo intensivo de 25 residências de migrantes rurais-urbanos, o artigo aborda a diversidade de plantas nos quintais urbanos na cidade amazônica de Santarém, Pará, Brasil. O propósito do estudo foi compreender os sistemas sociais que mantêm a diversidade de plantas cultivadas nos quintais. Nosso objetivo neste artigo é duplo: a) demonstrar que a agrodiversidade de plantas nos quintais persiste em um cenário que se situa 'no mercado'; e b) documentar as maneiras pelas quais os fluxos de material vegetal ajudam a manter essa diversidade agrícola.Palavras-chave: Quintais. Agrodiversidade. Santarém (PA). Amazônia. Intercâmbio de plantas. Redes sociais.

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Section: Homegarden Agrodiversitysupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

WinklerPrins

Oliveira²

2010

Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum.

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“…The above arguments may contribute to understand why homegardens are due to the gardeners (Kimber 2004) and why homegardens have been able to cope and evolve with external factors, such as the intensification of agriculture (Hoogerbrugge and Fresco, 1993). Also, they may explain the diversification into other types of´newǵ ardens, such as urban, community, and school gardens.…”

Section: Habitus´in the Context Of Homegardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Review to Approach Traditional Homegardens as Fields of Social Practice

Lope-Alzina

2017

Ethnobio Conserv

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Disciplines and approaches concerned with peopleenvironment relations have contributed to legitimate traditional ecological knowledge, nowadays endorsed in the international scientific policy agenda as an important driver for management and conservation of biological resources. However, there is still a need to further understand how people internalize worldviews, knowledge, and practices regarding environmental management. In this sense, traditional homegardens are a suitable scenery to unravel such processes. Grounded on Bourdieu´ś theory of practice´, this paper unveils homegardens as fields of social practice. The homegarden field is embedded within the household field, further influenced by the community field. The three of them make up the 'array of fields' where homegardening develops by means of social interactions, informing and informed by the habitus (schemes of perception, appreciation, and action, produced by particular social environments that shape agent's own sense of the world and his/her place in it). Both, inputs (e.g. land, plants, labor, and knowledge) and outputs (e.g. increased knowledge, homegarden produce, homegarden functions and derived benefits) are here approached as homegarden´s capitals. According to the theory of practice, such capitals are unequally distributed across agents, and it is such inequality that impulses them to generate, maintain, increase and/or transform homegarden capitals.

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“…Half of the participants in the study are migrants to the region, highlighting their access to and knowledge of different plants. Gardens provide a way for people to retain and add to their cultural identity [74].…”

Section: Gardenscapes For Biodiversity Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Home Gardenscapes as Sustainable Landscape Management on St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean

Berkowitz

Medley

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Home gardens are an important topic for landscape research due to their intersectional contributions to plant diversity conservation and local livelihoods. As sites of ecological restoration, gardens transform small-scale landscapes toward higher plant richness and density. We examine "gardenscapes" on St. Eustatius, a small Caribbean island, focusing on how plants growing around a home contribute to ecological and ethnobotanical measures of plant diversity, and how residents value the importance of gardens to their livelihoods. Through a survey of 14 gardenscapes and 11 home interviews, we report 277 plant species, including 31% native and 69% non-native, high plant densities and structural evenness, 260 plants with uses, and a total of 363 uses, especially as ornamental plants (184) and for other environmental services (16), but also food (101), health remedies (50), material uses (10) and symbolic services (2). Participants indicated that home gardening could be difficult due to drought and pests, but provided resources and incomes to livelihoods, especially through the production of food products. Several respondents reported that gardening was a declining activity on St. Eustatius, but this study shows how gardening activities offer a biocultural approach to conservation that supports plant diversity and livelihoods across the island's highly-modified natural landscape.

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Gardens and Dwelling: People in Vernacular Gardens

Cited by 46 publications

References 57 publications

Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

Urban agriculture in Santarém, Pará, Brazil: diversity and circulation of cultivated plants in urban homegardens

A Conceptual Review to Approach Traditional Homegardens as Fields of Social Practice

Home Gardenscapes as Sustainable Landscape Management on St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean

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