Towards equitable &amp; resilient post-pandemic urban food systems: The role of community-based organizations

Regnier-Davies, Jenelle; Edge, Sara; Yu, Melanie Hoi Man; Nasr, Joe; Austin, Nicole; Daley, Ashante; Koç, Mustafa

doi:10.1016/j.ugj.2022.10.003

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“…The pandemic disrupted food supply chains and exacerbated pre-existing issues with food access and hunger (Deaton and Deaton, 2020;Lal, 2020). UCGs provide a way to combat food insecurity on a local scale while contributing to community resilience from long-term and acute stressors such as the pandemic (Regnier-Davies et al, 2022). Therefore, to help foster community resilience through UCG use, it is important to study the impacts of phenomena such as pandemics on UCGs to determine how best to support them moving forward.…”

Section: Urban Community Gardens and Resiliencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Community Gardens and Resiliencymentioning

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Resilience in the face of crisis: investigating COVID-19 impacts on urban community gardens in Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Robillard,

Sekercioglu,

Edge

et al. 2023

BFJ

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PurposeUrban community gardens (UCGs) are important sources of community, food and greenspaces in urban environments. Though UCGs in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) of Ontario, Canada, were considered essential during the COVID-19 lockdowns and therefore open to gardeners, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and UCG use among garden members and managers is not fully understood.Design/methodology/approachThis was an exploratory qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven managers and eight members of nine gardens in the GTA. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis.FindingsThe results suggest that UCGs helped participants be resilient to COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors through the provision of cultural ecosystem services. Therefore, this study supports the current literature that UCGs can help foster resilience during crises. While participants in this study did not end up being food insecure, participants did express concern about community food security.Practical implicationsResults contribute to the current body of literature, and can be used to further update and develop UCG policies, as well as help develop UCG infrastructure and management strategies for future crises.Originality/valueThe impacts of the pandemic on Canadian UCGs are not well understood. This research paper investigated the impact of the pandemic on UCG use and food security, as well as the link between UCG use and increased resilience to COVID-19-related stressors.

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Section: Urban Community Gardens and Resiliencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Community Gardens and Resiliencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience in the face of crisis: investigating COVID-19 impacts on urban community gardens in Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Robillard,

Sekercioglu,

Edge

et al. 2023

BFJ

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“…Local communities can be categorized as a means of developing local knowledge, which is generally in line with local culture (Koopman, 2023). In addition, the existence of local communities is very in line with the role of community-based organizations as a medium JISH P-ISSN: 2303-2898 | E-ISSN: 2549-6662 for exchanging information and solution ideas (Regnier-Davies et al, 2022). The role of local communities in this research is very relevant to community-based organizations as a source of innovation and collaboration that prioritizes traditional methods (Walters, 2021).…”

Section: Local Knowledge and Local Culturementioning

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Mapping Local Potential of Coastal Communities to Support Sustainable Empowerment

Ligar Abdillah,

Afriandi

2023

J. Ilmu Sos. Human.

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Coastal communities are very close to natural wealth in the form of ample marine resources. In reality, coastal communities are positioned as groups that are socially, economically, and ecologically vulnerable. This vulnerability is motivated by the non-participatory empowerment of fishermen. This research aims to map the local potential of the fishing community in Pulo Sarok Village, Singkil District, Aceh Singkil Regency. This research is supported by qualitative methods to explore local communities' dynamics and map their resources. Data collection techniques used observation, in-depth interviews, and FGD (focus group discussion). Determining informants used the snowball sampling technique. Data were analyzed using the concept of local community empowerment initiated by Jim Ife and Frank Tesoriero. The findings from this research show that fishing communities consist of human resources that rely on local knowledge and local culture to utilize and preserve natural resources. The fishing community also has the skills to establish synergy with the village government to accommodate all their needs. The local community-based empowerment model is very suitable for fishermen who need traditional markets to distribute their catch. Fishermen must be positioned as the main actors in empowerment who best understand their problems and needs. Further research is highly recommended to analyze external parties who can facilitate fishing communities in implementing empowerment to achieve prosperity.

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“…But the landscape of HFI has changed in Edmonton, and Canada more broadly since these initial interviews. One benefit of this The City Table is just one example of new partnerships formed during the pandemic to respond to HFI in Canada (Food Banks Canada, 2020;Lowitt et al, 2022;Regnier-Davies et al, 2022;Slater et al, 2022). In Manitoba, Lowitt et al (2022)…”

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Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferdinands,

Lavriv,

Beckie

et al. 2023

CanFoodStudies

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to coordinate the myriad of HFI responses and begin to explore and address systemic issues underlying HFI. In this qualitative descriptive study, we asked: what are the opportunities for and challenges to collaboratively addressing HFI within Edmonton's City Table? In 2020, we conducted nine interviews with diverse professionals representing a local funding agency, the municipal food council, the City of Edmonton (community social work), the Edmonton Food Bank, the University of Alberta, ethno-cultural organizations, and other not-for-profit organizations supporting people experiencing poverty. Wenger's three modes of identification in a community of practice (CoP)—engagement, imagination, and alignment—were used to conceptually frame our qualitative analysis. Overall, we found that the HFI response sector reflects the beginnings of a CoP, but that inter-agency competition for funding and donations presents obstacles to the collaborative process. Findings highlight parallels between agencies and their clients, such as the mazes they must navigate to access resources. However, collaboration was facilitated by agencies' ideological cohesion and their shared struggle to address root causes of HFI. Analyses revealed some engagement amongst City Table members, but sparser imagination and alignment. A CoP does not yet exist because all three modes of identification are deficient in varying ways. Building engagement between agencies, shifting staff's imagination to a collective cause, and aligning practices are monumental tasks in this context.

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Towards equitable & resilient post-pandemic urban food systems: The role of community-based organizations

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

Resilience in the face of crisis: investigating COVID-19 impacts on urban community gardens in Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Resilience in the face of crisis: investigating COVID-19 impacts on urban community gardens in Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Mapping Local Potential of Coastal Communities to Support Sustainable Empowerment

Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

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