How do we get the community gardening?: grassroots perspectives from urban gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa

Kanosvamhira, Tinashe Paul

doi:10.1080/08873631.2023.2187509

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“…Local communities often do not understand the benefits of agro‐ecological harvests and stigmatize urban cultivation (Engel et al ., 2019; Kanosvamhira, 2023b). Therefore, CSOs and urban gardeners should promote agro‐ecological harvests to ignite local interest.…”

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CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19

Kanosvamhira

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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It is well established that urban community gardens (UCGs) can either challenge or reinforce neoliberal urbanism. This duality is especially evident among UCGs that sell garden harvests for income generation. In this article I therefore examine UCGs in low‐income areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to understand how they might sell their harvests while countering the neoliberal food system in cities of the global South. I draw on qualitative fieldwork, including observations and semi‐structured interviews with UCG representatives and civil society actors. Most harvests are currently sold to high‐end venues through intermediary actors in civil society organizations (CSOs) and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). However, this approach disregards the local community's socioeconomic conditions and undermines community gardens’ nutritional objectives. Yet, under specific scenarios, the sale of garden harvests could mitigate the persistent food injustice in Cape Town's low‐income areas. In this article I introduce a model for harvest sales that advances sustainable urban agriculture and fosters food justice in neoliberal cities in the global South.

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CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19

Kanosvamhira

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Despite the support for urban agriculture, the literature indicates that the activity is generally not profitable. Additionally, there is a prevalent negative attitude towards the practice in certain neighbourhoods on the Cape Flats (Kanosvamhira, 2023).…”

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Experimental urban commons?: Re‐examining urban community food gardens in Cape Town, South Africa

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Tevera

2023

Geographical Journal

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Contemporary literature on urban agriculture often analyses urban community gardens as ‘existing’ commons with the capacity to counter neoliberal urban development and resource management practices. However, the existing literature on ‘political gardening’ generally focuses on cities in North America and Europe, despite the prevalence of urban community gardens and neoliberal planning across other regions, including Southern cities. This paper examines urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa to assess their capacity to function as urban commons in six areas: infrastructure, inputs, land, produce, labour and immaterial components. This mixed‐methods study employed questionnaires, semi‐structured interviews and observations across 34 urban community gardens in the city. The findings and analysis demonstrate how the urban community gardens counter neoliberal privatisation and individualisation processes. However, their capacity to function as urban commons is significantly curtailed by an entrenchment within the neoliberal context. Thus, the urban community gardens are framed as ‘experimental’ commons, a valuable re‐conceptualisation of alternative resource utilisation in neoliberal Southern cities.

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Sustainable Urban Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential of Home Gardens in Low-Income Communities

Kanosvamhira

2024

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How do we get the community gardening?: grassroots perspectives from urban gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19

CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19

Experimental urban commons?: Re‐examining urban community food gardens in Cape Town, South Africa

Sustainable Urban Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential of Home Gardens in Low-Income Communities

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