The Mythology of Urban Agriculture

Frayne, Bruce; McCordic, Cameron; Shilomboleni, Helena

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43567-1_2

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“…Finally, the literature suggested that the benefits of adopting a circular development approach were not spread equally across society [47,54,55]. Both SRSP and QEOP cases support this notion.…”

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Circular Cities: What Are the Benefits of Circular Development?

Williams¹

2021

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If cities could become regenerative and adaptive urban ecosystems, in which resource loops were closed and waste was obsolete, their ecological footprint would diminish. In addition, urban resource security would increase, the health of urban populations would improve and urban greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced. These are the principle goals under-pinning the circular city. Circular cities emerge through the process of circular development. Circular development alters cities’ systems of provision to enable circular practices of inhabitants to develop. This manifests as circular food systems and construction, water and nutrient recycling; adaptive reuse of spaces and pop-up activities; bioremediation of contaminated sites and integration of blue-green infrastructure throughout cities. To transform our cities will require significant investment, political support and public engagement. If the benefits of adopting such an approach can be identified, this will begin to make the case for support. The research presented in this paper draws on an inductive and deductive content analysis of relevant literature and interviews with those implementing circular projects in European cities (London, Paris, Amsterdam and Stockholm). It provides a clear definition of the normative concept of circular development. It creates a framework of benefits which are likely to accrue from adopting this approach. It points to the synergistic benefits emerging from circular development. It also highlights problems around valuation of those benefits, the unintended consequences of circular development and the inequalities in accessing benefits across society.

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“…For example, green space is often less accessible to the urban poor [54]. Low income households are also less likely to participate in and benefit from urban farming projects [55].…”

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Circular Cities: What Are the Benefits of Circular Development?

Williams¹

2021

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“…There is, of course, an extensive body of literature specifically focused on urban agriculture. Despite providing crucial insights into urban livelihoods, these debates have been centred on issues of food security, evaluating agriculture in terms of yields and hunger (Crush and Frayne, 2014; Drechsel and Dongus, 2010; Frayne et al, 2016; Redwood, 2009; Simatele and Binns, 2008). On its own, this developmentalist perspective is not useful for a substantive agenda regarding the urban land question, as it is akin to debating slum urbanism solely in terms of structural integrity.…”

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“…Despite its vulnerable and ubiquitous nature, urban agriculture has been largely overlooked in contemporary debates on urban land rights. While urban and rural scholars have championed the rights of slum dwellers and peasants (Claeys, 2018; Pieterse, 2016), urban agriculture has been lacking in substantive deliberations, reduced instead to developmentalist concerns about urban food security (Crush and Frayne, 2014; Frayne et al, 2016). The political and theoretical marginalisation of urban agriculture has therefore rendered urban farmers largely invisible amidst the growing global competition for Africa’s urban land.…”

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On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique

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A new era of global interventionism in African cities is emerging, the implications of which for existing claims to urban space are poorly understood. This is particularly true for the claims of farmers. Despite being a ubiquitous feature of many African cities, urban agriculture broadly exists in a conceptual limbo between rurality and urbanity, largely invisible to urban governance and substantive scholarship. Based on the case of Beira, Mozambique, in this article we make urban agriculture empirically and conceptually visible within the context of emerging debates on the urban land question in Africa. Through a historical–political analysis, we demonstrate how urban farming has constituted a distinct feature of Beira’s urbanism, which has evolved amidst successive and contradictory state-land regimes. Moving to the present day, we demonstrate how a new urban regime has emerged out of a coalition of municipal leaders and international donors with the aim of erasing all traces of urban agriculture from the city through urban ‘development’. The findings demonstrate that there is a need for a better understanding of the manifold claims to urban space, outside of slum urbanism alone, in contemporary land rights debates. We conclude by arguing that there is a need for a substantive land rights agenda that transcends the prescriptive categories of urbanism and rurality by focusing instead on the universal land question.

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“…However, only a few intercountry studies have been conducted. For instance, Frayne et al (2016) examined the effect of UA on food security in 11 African countries. In Asia, Diehl et al (2019) descriptively discussed the food security of migrants who are urban farmers in Delhi, Jakarta and Quito.…”

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Extent of urban agriculture and food security: evidence from Ghana and India

Bannor

Sharma

Oppong-Kyeremeh

2021

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PurposeThe study attempted to assess the food security status of urban agriculture households in Ghana and India. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation and its effect on food security in Ghana and India were examined.Design/methodology/approachA total of 650 urban agriculture farmers were interviewed for this study in Ghana and India. Food security status of urban households was assessed by the use of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, whereas the determinants of the extent of urban agriculture and its effect on food security were analysed by the use of the heteroskedastic linear regression and the Seemingly Unrelated Regression models, respectively.FindingsFrom the study on average, households in Ghana were mildly food insecure, but that of India was moderately food insecure. The results further revealed that various demographic, economic, institutional and health and nutrition factors differently influenced urban food security and urban agriculture. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation positively influenced food security.Originality/valueSeveral studies in Asia (India) and Africa (Ghana) on urban food security have been geographically limited to New Delhi, Mumbai and Greater Accra, with few studies in the Middle Belt of Ghana, and Bihar in India. Besides, there is a limited, rigorous, empirical study on the effect of the extent of UA on food security in Asia (India) and Africa (Ghana) individually and together. Moreover, we extend the frontiers of the methodological approach by applying the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model to understand if the factors that affect food-security accessibility based on two food security accessibility tools are correlated.

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The Mythology of Urban Agriculture

Cited by 16 publications

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Circular Cities: What Are the Benefits of Circular Development?

Circular Cities: What Are the Benefits of Circular Development?

On whose land is the city to be built? Farmers, donors and the urban land question in Beira city, Mozambique

Extent of urban agriculture and food security: evidence from Ghana and India

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