The multifunctionality of urban farming: perceived benefits for neighbourhood improvement

Poulsen, Melissa N.; Neff, Roni A.; Winch, Peter J.

doi:10.1080/13549839.2017.1357686

Cited by 73 publications

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“…Lastly, it seems plausible that past gardening experience is intimately associated with a desire for socializing with other gardeners, which was not a significant functional factor in the model. This speculation stems from previous findings that gardeners develop new social ties and increase connections through interacting with neighbors in community gardens as meeting spaces [36,39]. However, the results of this study show that gardening experience does not increase gardeners' desires for socialization at the gardens.…”

Section: Insignificant Effect Of Past Gardening Experience On the Assmentioning

confidence: 48%

“…Additionally, Flachs [38] and McClintock et al [25] noted that reasons associated with the physical environment, such as beautification of the local environment while reducing blight, is an important source of community garden participation. Other studies have found the desire for social interaction as a functional motivator for participation in gardening [39,40].…”

Section: Motivations Influencing Community Garden Participationmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

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Matarrita‐Cascante

2019

Sustainability

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Studies on participation in community gardens have revealed that gardeners’ participation is driven by functional and emotional motives. Most studies, however, have failed to recognize gardeners’ diverse characteristics. To fill this research gap, this study examined the moderating effect that variations within gardeners has on their participation, particularly as in the case of past gardening experience. The data for this study were obtained through a survey administered in three plot-based community gardens in Austin, Texas. Results revealed that increased gardening experience bolsters the effect of emotional motivations on garden participation, while no effect was shown in the relationship between functional motivations and participation. The importance of gardeners’ past gardening experience on emotional motivations is discussed as it relates to sustained participation in gardening.

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Section: Insignificant Effect Of Past Gardening Experience On the Assmentioning

confidence: 48%

Section: Motivations Influencing Community Garden Participationmentioning

confidence: 93%

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

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Matarrita‐Cascante

2019

Sustainability

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“…Urban agriculture comprises very diverse agricultural productions, though the major cultures are grain, root, vegetable, aromatic and medicinal herbs and fruit crops, and livestock of all shapes and sizes (Mougeot, 2000). In developed countries, urban farming represents a particular type of urban agriculture, which focuses on entrepreneurial food production and serves multiple functions in neighborhoods (Poulsen et al, 2017). Public projects based on urban farming bring several benefits, such as physical improvement of degraded space, production of local food, increasing of social connectedness, improving youth education and development, and creating employment opportunities.…”

Section: Urban Farming/urban Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of Multiple Interactions Between Plants and the Urban Environment

Fineschi¹,

Loreto²

2020

Front. For. Glob. Change

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It is well-acknowledged that plants in urban areas provide multiple ecosystem services. They contribute improving ambient quality and mitigating negative impacts of human presence, beautifying the anthropic environment, and promoting place identity and cultural heritage. However, the existence of plants in general, and trees in particular, cannot be considered independent on urban activities and infrastructures. Release of plant volatile compounds is profoundly affected in urban environments, in turn modifying plant relationships with other living organisms, both plants and animals, and affecting air chemistry and quality. Plants also interfere with stone artifacts, cultural and historical heritage. Plant-human coexistence requires precise and adequate managing measures, which have often been ignored in cities' government and planning. Plants and humans (and human infrastructures) are frequently considered as independent from each other and plant requirements are often disregarded, thus causing difficult or erroneous management and/or environmental damage. We review some of the most important ecosystem services provided by plants in urban environment, and also focus on possible negative effects of plants that may become relevant if urban vegetation is improperly managed and unintegrated in proper city planning, both of historical centers and of new towns or suburbs. Keywords: ecosystem services, global change, green area typologies in cities, green urban planning and management, positive (negative) plant-human interactions, urban trees

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“…To account for the social, cultural, educational, and environmental impacts of localized urban food systems, a framework is needed that incorporates the multiple, integrated services that agriculture can provide. Lovell (2010) and Poulsen et al (2017) have argued for multifunctionality, a concept that recognizes agricultural land uses can provide, within a particular space, many functions beyond the production of food and fiber (Wilson, 2008;Lovell, 2010;Zasada, 2011). When a multifunctional lens is extended to urban food systems, this framing allows us to incorporate the social, educational, and environmental functions of local food production and marketing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

More Than Food: The Social Benefits of Localized Urban Food Systems

Diekmann¹,

Gray

Thai

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Localized urban food systems are gaining attention from policy makers, planners, and advocates for benefits that go well beyond food production and consumption. Recognizing that agriculture, and food systems more broadly, provide multiple, integrated services, this study measures the social, educational, civic, and nutritional impacts of four common types of local food system activity in an urban setting. Specifically, we examine the outcomes of two common types of urban agricultural production (home gardens and community gardens) and two common types of direct markets (farmers' markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs or CSAs) through a survey of 424 gardeners and 450 direct market shoppers in California's San Francisco Bay Area. Our comparative analysis focuses on four commonly discussed functions of agricultural production and direct marketing in urban areas: access to high-quality, fresh produce; food and agriculture education; social connections; and civic engagement. While impacts on nutrition were consistently high, some of the largest differences between types of local food system activity were in social interaction and civic engagement. For example, gardeners had a mean score of 3.77 on the social interaction scale compared to direct market participants, who had a mean score of 3.03. These findings confirm that different types of local production and direct marketing have distinct impacts on participants. Generally, gardens, which involve more sustained engagement with other people and the natural world, were sites of greater learning, connection, and civic participation than either type of direct marketing.

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The multifunctionality of urban farming: perceived benefits for neighbourhood improvement

Cited by 73 publications

References 43 publications

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

A Survey of Multiple Interactions Between Plants and the Urban Environment

More Than Food: The Social Benefits of Localized Urban Food Systems

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