Urban community gardens: An evaluation of governance approaches and related enablers and barriers at different development stages

Fox-Kämper, Runrid; Wesener, Andreas; Münderlein, Daniel; Sondermann, Martin; McWilliam, Wendy; Kirk, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.023

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“…Some of the issues that are addressed in these articles are importance of social networking in grassroots garden development (Ghose & Pettygrove, 2014), placemaking and civic engagement (Filkobski et al, 2016;Passidomo, 2016), meanings and functions of gardens in historically different social and political settings (Borčić et al, 2016), top-down and bottom-up garden governance (Fox-Kämper et al, 2017). …”

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Urban Community and Allotment Gardens: Research Trends and a Look Ahead

Cepic¹,

Tomićević-Dubljević²

2017

AgricultForest

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SUMMARYGrowing concerns about rapid urbanization and food insecurity in cities worldwide have renewed interest of academic community in urban gardening and urban agriculture. Urban gardens, including community and allotment gardens, are places of local food production that bring many other benefits to local communities, such as improved health, social networking and cohesion, community development and citizen activation. The paper attempts to comprehensively review the extensive body of literature on urban gardens by looking into geographic locations, disciplines and methods applied in each of the examined papers. The aim of the review is to identify gaps in existing knowledge and to suggest research directions for the future. A total of 27 academic articles in English published between 2000 and 2017 have been reviewed. The results of the data analysis point to uneven geographic distribution of research papers on urban gardening, having large body of literature coping with the North American and Western European context. Fields of research are diverse and fall into categories of planning and social studies (37%), health and community development (26%), politics and citizen participation (26%), and food production (11%). The findings recommend future more rigorous research on quantities of food production, effects of urban gardening on health and nutrition, and social aspects of community and allotment gardens. There is also a need to expand geographic scope of the research beyond the cities in developed countries in order to enrich our understanding of urban gardening in various contexts.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Community and Allotment Gardens: Research Trends and a Look Ahead

Cepic¹,

Tomićević-Dubljević²

2017

AgricultForest

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“…It has been hypothesized that garden community-organizing projects may most effectively be sustained when developed by the entire community rather than only NGOs or independent project leaders [17,18]. In addition to contributing to a sustainable environment, community gardens such as FRCGC have the potential to play a valuable role in society through the horticultural activities that are accessible to everyone, the creation of opportunities for individuals to develop relationships, and the numerous learning outcomes [2,3,[17][18][19][20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to contributing to a sustainable environment, community gardens such as FRCGC have the potential to play a valuable role in society through the horticultural activities that are accessible to everyone, the creation of opportunities for individuals to develop relationships, and the numerous learning outcomes [2,3,[17][18][19][20]. The goals initially proposed for the FRCGC were to foster a community that would engage in the selection and site design for a community growing center, participate in construction of greenhouse benches and outdoor garden beds, practice general plant care, and support design and implementation of learning opportunities.…”

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Lasting Impacts in a Rural Community through Horticultural Activities

North¹,

Patterson²

2018

J Hortic

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“…The majority of papers of the review suggest that UPA should be considered as a bottom-up activity rather than a top-down urban planning approach (e.g., [95,117,141]). At the same time, professional coordination is important to compensate short-term commitment by residents [176], suggesting that a multi-scale governance enables UPA implementation [133]. To avoid residents rejecting urban garden projects, an early involvement of relevant actors and communication plans for participatory and multi-stakeholder dialogues are recommended [95,97].…”

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The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

2018

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Urbanization and achieving sustainable agriculture are both major societal challenges. By reducing food miles and connecting people with nature, food cultivation in cities has several major advantages. However, due to further urban development (peri-) urban agriculture (UPA) is under threat. To strengthen UPA, we argue for considering UPA as a nature-based solution (NbS) supporting systemic approaches for societal challenges. However, academic knowledge on UPA's contribution to various societal challenges of urbanization is still fragmented. This study addresses the gap by conducting a systemic literature review, incorporating 166 academic articles focusing on the global north. The results of the review show that UPA contributes to ten key societal challenges of urbanization: climate change, food security, biodiversity and ecosystem services, agricultural intensification, resource efficiency, urban renewal and regeneration, land management, public health, social cohesion, and economic growth. The value of UPA is its multifunctionality in providing social, economic and environmental co-benefits and ecosystem services. When implementing UPA, social, institutional, economic, technical, geographical, and ecological drivers and constraints need to be considered. To upscale UPA successfully, the study develops an integrative assessment framework for evaluating the implementation and impact efficiency of UPA. This framework should be tested based on the example of edible cities.

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Urban community gardens: An evaluation of governance approaches and related enablers and barriers at different development stages

Cited by 104 publications

References 40 publications

Urban Community and Allotment Gardens: Research Trends and a Look Ahead

Urban Community and Allotment Gardens: Research Trends and a Look Ahead

Lasting Impacts in a Rural Community through Horticultural Activities

The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

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