Urban livestock ownership, management, and regulation in the United States: An exploratory survey and research agenda

McClintock, Nathan; Pallana, Esperanza; Wooten, Heather

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.12.006

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“…However, many cities in the US have passed specific ordinances permitting certain commercial, community, or non-profit agricultural activity. For example, municipalities such as Vancouver (Broadway and Broadway 2011), Cleveland (Grewal and Grewal 2012) and NYC (Mees and Stone 2012) have enacted laws regarding keeping livestock and zoning regulations for UA (McClintock et al 2014). Masson-Minock and Stockmann (2010) and Castillo et al (2013) found further need for regulation in UA in their case studies in Flint, Michigan, and in Chicago.…”

Section: Legal Statusmentioning

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Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North

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Food security is becoming an increasingly relevant topic in the Global North, especially in urban areas. Because such areas do not always have good access to nutritionally adequate food, the question of how to supply them is an urgent priority in order to maintain a healthy population. Urban and peri-urban agriculture, as sources of local fresh food, could play an important role. Whereas some scholars do not differentiate between peri-urban and urban agriculture, seeing them as a single entity, our hypothesis is that they are distinct, and that this has important consequences for food security and other issues. This has knock-on effects for food system planning and has not yet been appropriately analysed. The objectives of this study are to provide a systematic understanding of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North, showing their similarities and differences, and to analyse their impact on urban food security. To this end, an extensive literature review was conducted, resulting in the identification and comparison of their spatial, ecological and socio-economic characteristics. The findings are discussed in terms of their impact on food security in relation to the four levels of the food system: food production, processing, distribution and consumption. The results show that urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North indeed differ in most of their characteristics and consequently also in their ability to meet the food needs of urban inhabitants. While urban agriculture still meets food needs mainly at the household level, peri-urban agriculture can provide larger quantities and has broader distribution pathways, giving it a separate status in terms of food security. Nevertheless, both possess (unused) potential, making them valuable for urban food planning, and both face similar threats regarding urbanisation pressures, necessitating adequate planning measures.

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Section: Legal Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North

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“…and respondents were asked to disseminate it to their contacts (snowball sampling strategy) (Conrad et al, 2011;McClintock et al, 2014). These institutions were selected because of their relation with recreation services at different scales in the Basque Country.…”

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“…Socio-demographic considerations were taken into account to ensure that a range of ages, genders, geographical background, educational level and occupations were included within this initial group. This sampling strategy allows for practical benefits including efficiency and reduced cost, although it is also known to involve constraints with respect to sample representativeness (Conrad et al, 2011) and calculation of response rate (McClintock et al, 2014).…”

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Mapping recreation supply and demand using an ecological and a social evaluation approach

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“…Several factors such as geographical location, livestock species and numbers, socio-economic background of livestock keepers and livestock management are important determinants of the diversity of urban and peri-urban livestock farm types [7][8][9]. According to [10], urban livestock keeping is small-scale, often dominated by poultry, pigs and pet animals such as rabbits, and the space devoted to animals is relatively small [11]. Animals are fed on food wastes from the household, restaurants and communal institutions, as well as from industrial processes of e.g., breweries or canning factories [10].…”

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Emerging Development Pathways of Urban Livestock Production in Rapidly Growing West Africa Cities

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Abstract:In this study, we try to capture the degree of specialization or integration, and of intensification or extensification, of (peri-) urban livestock production, along with the factors that influence such decisions and their impact on natural resource uses. A total of 181 and 187 structured questionnaires were completed in livestock-keeping households in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Tamale (Ghana). Categorical principal component and two-step cluster analysis were used to identify homogenous groups of livestock-keeping households. Cross tabulation and logistic regression analysis revealed factors that influence livestock husbandry, showing their impacts on resource use by livestock keepers in the two cities. A diversity of livestock species was kept, mostly integrated with crop farming. Yet, some households specialized in either sheep, pig or commercial milk production, and partly intensified their production. The decision to specialize and/or intensify livestock production is site-specific and influenced by the education level of the household head and security of land ownership. Higher inputs in livestock systems do not necessarily lead to higher outputs, and specialization inevitably leads to higher manure wastages. Therefore, links of livestock producers to crop farmers and markets for livestock manure must be strengthened to enable recycling of resources and limit negative externalities of specialized livestock production. Strategies need to be identified to improve livestock productivity by enhancing outputs as input use increases.

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Urban livestock ownership, management, and regulation in the United States: An exploratory survey and research agenda

Cited by 39 publications

References 31 publications

Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North

Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North

Mapping recreation supply and demand using an ecological and a social evaluation approach

Emerging Development Pathways of Urban Livestock Production in Rapidly Growing West Africa Cities

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