Putting domestic gardens on the agenda using empirical spatial data: The case of Flanders

Dewaelheyns, Valerie; Rogge, Elke; Gulinck, Hubert

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.02.011

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“…use of agricultural land in residential gardens) and domestication (e.g. use of agricultural land for hobby activities) of land use types (Dewaelheyns et al, 2014;Gulinck et al, 2013). This results in an additional dissociation of spaces from policy.…”

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Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

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Environmental Science & Policy

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Land is a scarce resource and should be used in such a way that the increasing global demand for food and feed can be fulfilled, while ensuring sufficient levels of ecosystem services. While the demand on open space to deliver a multitude of services is increasing, drivers like global change and urbanization are undermining these services. Decision makers, from individual farmers to spatial planners, are in need of appropriate diagnostic tools to estimate trade-offs and synergies associated with land allocation and land use intensity decisions. This often implies trade-offs between food and biomass production and other non-provisioning ecosystem services. This paper presents an assessment on the farm scale using an integrated approach that combines spatial and economic analyses. It relies on the ecosystem services concept to evaluate land use alternatives. The analysis highlights current challenges to reach a societal optimal land allocation. INTRODUCTIONPopulation pressure results in an increasing demand for food and bio-energy products and hence also in an increasing demand for agricultural land (Meyfroidt et al., 2013;Tscharntke et al., 2012). This demand is in competition with the additional demand for land for residential, conservation, forestry, recreational, and other purposes (Zasada, 2011). With land as an increasingly scarce resource, spatial planners seek to balance land use allocation among competing stakeholders. This has led to a polarization in land use policies between demands for expanding urbanized fabric and the remaining open space used for agriculture, whilst natural areas are largely pushed back to relatively small and fragmented relics. Spatial planning has mainly focused on allocation of land to space demanding sectors and minimizing spatial conflicts. This approach falls short in considering present-day demands for multifunctionality, sustainability, ecosystem services, resilience and adaptive governance. While an integrative and spatially explicit approach to land allocation is highly needed, it is largely missing (Bomans et al., 2010b;Termorshuizen and Opdam, 2009). Particularly in strongly urbanized regions, the relation between the availability and use of space, and the potential services this space is able to provide to society, needs to be explored further. Increasing service delivery per unit of space can allow a decreasing spatial requirement for delivering this service, and hence, freeing space for other services. Fragmented peri-urban landscapes in particular, where interfaces between different forms of land use and associated actors are plenty, are in need of innovative concepts for land use allocation. Meanwhile, concepts of multifunctionality and ecosystem services already bridge the distinction between classical sectors like agriculture, nature and forestry. In the light of food and biomass production, the principal challenge is to simultaneously assess and maximize production as well as the other ES provided by bioproductive land (Balmford et al., 2012) which inevi...

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Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

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“…Urban gardens differ in many aspects, such as available area, cultivation system, plant types and the amount of food produced. The families who create urban gardens differ in their garden management abilities, education, family structure and size, and time available for gardening.…”

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Diverse food in urban gardens in the promotion of food and nutrition security in Brazil: a review

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Food and nutrition security can be supported by an urban garden. The present study comprises a critical reflection on the difficulty of producing food in urban gardens in Brazil and shows the potential of food production and the obstacles to its expansion. In addition, issues related to the agroecological management of gardens are addressed and suggestions are made to improve the proposed public policies. Urban gardens are multifunctional and have social, economic and environmental impacts. They are strategically important for supporting low-income families and urban development. Through urban gardens, diverse foods and quality foods can be produced for self-consumption. This review highlights the importance of generating detailed information on urban gardens in Brazil to support policies aimed at this sector. Long-term and multidisciplinary studies are needed to evaluate the relationship between food production in urban gardens and household food and nutrition security. This approach revealed a lack of information on the amount of food produced by Brazilians in their gardens and consumed by the household. In addition, there is little information on the management of production. There is a gap relating to the impact of food produced in urban gardens and the prevalence of food and nutrition security.

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“…Ongeveer 12%, of 51 km², van de oppervlakte van de gemeentes in het RL Rivierenland is in gebruik als private tuinen. Voor Vlaanderen werd de tuinoppervlakte geschat op 8% (Dewaelheyns et al, 2014b). Het hogere percentage voor het Regionaal Landschap weerspiegelt waarschijnlijk de hogere suburbanisatie in de regio.…”

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Putting domestic gardens on the agenda using empirical spatial data: The case of Flanders

Cited by 48 publications

References 75 publications

Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

Revisiting production and ecosystem services on the farm scale for evaluating land use alternatives

Diverse food in urban gardens in the promotion of food and nutrition security in Brazil: a review

Het ecosysteemdienstenconcept als ondersteuning van bovenlokale visievorming : Natuurrapport - Aan de slag met ecosysteemdiensten Technisch rapport - Hoodstuk 3

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