The Askîy Project—Empowering Youth, Inspiring Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-242
Author(s):  
Wanda Martin ◽  
Yvonne Hanson

Urban agriculture is one way to connect people with the food system and can empower urban youth who may feel disconnected from the land. The award winning askîy project is a multifaceted program supporting both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in a core neighborhood in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3234
Author(s):  
Nan Wang ◽  
Li Zhu ◽  
Yuanhao Bing ◽  
Liwei Chen ◽  
Shulang Fei

Along the rapid pace of urbanization, urban agriculture is increasingly recognized as an important tool of sustainable food and nutrition supply, while contributing to the resilience and sustainability of cities from various dimensions. From a governance point of view, it is fundamental to systemically assess the urban agriculture based on local context for evidence-based food planning. In China, values of urban agriculture are being noticed in recent years, with attempts emerging to involve urban agriculture in urban planning and agriculture strategies. However, clear definition to identify the scope and holistic approaches to assess and monitor local urban agriculture are still lacking. The paper took Chengdu as the study area, to conduct a thorough assessment of the foundation, capacity, practices, functions, opportunities, and challenges of the urban agriculture locally. Building on these results, the study further developed an indicator framework tailored to Chengdu’s conditions and city objectives, for in-depth evaluation and monitoring of local urban agriculture by themes, following which a pilot in-depth assessment was conducted in Chengdu using the indicator framework. The outcome of this research for the first time provided an overall characterization of the urban agriculture in Chengdu and assessment tools tailored to urban agriculture in Chinese cities, establishing a good basis for strategic local food system planning and contributing to the formation of the Chinese paradigm in urban agriculture research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naudé Malan

“iZindaba Zokudla” means we talk about the food that we eat. iZindaba Zokudla is a public innovation lab that uses stakeholder-engagement methods to create “opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system.” iZindaba Zokudla is presented as an extra-institutional means to govern the water, land, energy, and waste nexus. This reflective essay critically describes iZindaba Zokudla and applies this to the design of institutional steering mechanisms to govern the food, water, land, and energy nexus towards sustainability. Governance is an intersubjective and interactive process between the subjects of governance and governance itself. Sustainability, as an interactive process, implies the creation of autocatalytic and symbiotic communities in society that integrates diverse actors and stakeholders, inclusive of scientific and lay actors, and ecosystems. iZindaba Zokudla is a means to govern and create such communities, and this article describes and reflects on how iZindaba Zokudla has created and managed such symbiotic communities or autocatalytic networks in the food system. The article generalises how the activities conducted in iZindaba Zokudla can be used to govern the water, land, energy, and waste nexus for sustainability. The article shows how iZindaba Zokudla has realised a progressive governance through the facilitation of its Farmers' Lab and website; how it has created opportunities for participation; and how it enables critical reflection in society.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Mira

Insertar una perspectiva sociocultural sobre las juventudes indígenas contemporáneas en el campo de relaciones entre juventud, escuela y socialización, permite establecer nuevas vetas de análisis para comprender cuál es el vínculo que se teje entre la expansión aún activa de sistemas en educación superior en regiones históricamente relegadas de esta infraestructura escolar en México, y la producción social y cultural de nuevas y diferenciadas formas de ser joven indígena. Partiendo del reconocimiento de que al día de hoy las llamadas nuevas ruralidades están experimentando un proceso de desvinculación paulatina de las estructuras sociales del mundo agrario y tradicional, y se perfilan como una generación culturalmente más próxima a las prácticas sociales de las juventudes urbanas, el presente trabajo analiza las interacciones que mantiene la juventud otomí o ñöñho de San Ildefonso Tultepec en Querétaro, frente a una de la de las instituciones de mayor perdurabilidad histórica en la construcción de las identidades juveniles: la escuela. Específicamente se explora a partir de datos etnográficos, cómo la entrada de la educación superior de corte intercultural a esta zona indígena en Querétaro, contribuye a extender y dinamizar los atributos juveniles de este sector de la población ñöñho a partir de su condición estudiantil, al otorgarles nuevas cuotas de organización del tiempo individual - que postergan sus compromisos laborales y familiares -, oportunidades de construir nuevos lazos afectivos juveniles dentro y fuera del espacio comunitario, de ampliar sus gustos y capitales culturales, y de constituirse como un profesionista emergente con perspectivas diferenciales sobre su entorno comunitario.EXTENSION AND NEW DINAMICS OF THE YOUTH CONDITION IN THE ÑÖÑHO OF SAN ILDEFONSO TULTEPEC: links of indigenous youth to intercultural higher education in Mexico  ABSTRACTInserting a sociocultural perspective on contemporary indigenous youth in the field of youth relations, school and socialization, allows to establish new veins of analysis to understand the link that is woven between the still active expansion of systems in higher education in historically relegated regions of this school infrastructure in Mexico, and the social and cultural production of new and differentiated ways of being indigenous young. Based on the recognition that to this day the so-called new ruralities are experiencing a process of gradual disengagement from the social structures of the agrarian and traditional world, and are emerging as a generation culturally closer to the social practices of urban youth, this work analyzes the interactions maintained by the otomí o ñöñho youth of San Ildefonso Tultepec in Querétaro, compared to one of the institutions with the greatest historical durability in the construction of youth identities: the school.Specifically it is explored from ethnographic data, how the entry of intercultural higher education to this indigenous area in Querétaro, contributes to extend and energize the youth attributes of this sector of the ñöñho population based on their student status, by granting them new quotas of organization of individual time -that defer their work and family commitments- , opportunities to build new youthful affective bonds within and outside the community space, to expand their social tastes and cultural capitals, and to establish themselves as an emerging professional with differential perspectives on their community environment.KeyWords: Youth condition. Indigenous young. Intercultural higher education. New rurality. Otomíes.


Author(s):  
Joshua Sbicca

When urban agriculture becomes a sustainability initiative with institutional backing, it can drive green gentrification even when its advocates are well intentioned and concerned about the possible exclusion of urban farmers and residents. This chapter explores these tensions through the notion of an urban agriculture fix, which I apply to a case in Denver, Colorado. Urban farmers accessed land more easily after the Great Recession and as a result were a force for displacement and at risk of displacement as the city adopted sustainable food system plans, the housing market recovered, and green gentrification spread. This case suggests the importance of explaining how political economy and culture combine to drive neighborhood disinvestment and economic marginalization, which can compel the entrance of urban agriculture due to its perceived low cost and potential high return for local residents. Yet, while urban agriculture may provide some short-term benefits, it may ultimately be entangled in some of the long-term harms of green gentrification.


BioScience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 748-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Nogeire-McRae ◽  
Elizabeth P Ryan ◽  
Becca B R Jablonski ◽  
Michael Carolan ◽  
H S Arathi ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Lung Wai Cham

As global population and migration to cities continue to increase, urban poverty and shortages of affordable housing have become significant issues in Toronto, making it necessary to develop a model to mitigate these issues. This book focuses on incorporating urban agriculture with affordable housing, and proposes a building typology that combines the two. The idea is to provide accommodation along with space for low-income households to grow their own food. It is expected that by making these elemental needs accessible and affordable, the problem of food security will be offset, improvements will be made to the food system, and housing shortages will be alleviated within the city of Toronto.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 481-496
Author(s):  
Colleen Hammelman

Urban agriculture continues to gain traction in cities across North America. Many such efforts pursue social justice objectives with mixed success. This paper examines two urban agriculture projects in Toronto, Canada, to demonstrate the challenges of pursuing social justice goals via urban agriculture. Despite a long history of municipal and civil society support for urban agriculture in Toronto, stakeholders continually face bureaucratic obstacles that make growing food on public land inaccessible for groups without significant resources. Relying on Swyngedouw’s theories of the post-political condition, this paper finds that a seemingly depoliticized food governance focusing exclusively on processes of urban agriculture obscures questions about who benefits from such processes, which can pave the way for uneven development. This research contributes to literature on environmental justice and food governance by attending to municipal challenges to achieving social justice goals in urban agriculture projects.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Heidrun Moschitz ◽  
Jan Landert ◽  
Christian Schader ◽  
Rebekka Frick

Urban agriculture is embedded in an urban food system, and its full potential can only be understood by looking into the dynamics of the system. Involving a variety of actors from civil society, policy, and the market, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the food system of the city of Basel, Switzerland, including policy and actor analysis, analysis of perceptions on urban agriculture, food flow analysis, and a sustainability assessment. The article presents the results of these analyses and discusses how research can contribute to the societal debate on food systems transformation. We particularly reflect on how the research project became a boundary object in a dynamic process to develop new ideas and activities, as well as to create a space for future debates in the city’s food system.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Thomas Zahner

<p>Urbanisation and agricultural development have for centuries had an interdependent relationship with each other, where the sophistication and systemisation of food production has led to the evolution and advancement of the city (Lim, Food City 5). Current global food systems seem to be exacerbating a disconnection between people and food production while concurrently harming the environment and biodiversity extensively (Kirschenmann 109). Therefore the demand for sufficient food for a growing population carries with it many challenges for environmentally, socially and economically sustainable food production (O’Kane 268). Local food systems are capable of mitigating many of the issues caused by the globalised food system, adapting local food production to suit the health and environmental needs of a community (O’Kane 274). This results in a more active participation in the food system by the community, increased social cohesion, a promotion of satisfying social and cultural interactions around food, a fostering of social responsibility and stewardship of local land, a nurturing of biodiversity, and a strengthening of the community’s economic vitality (O’Kane 271).  This design research investigates the social and environmental benefits of integrating a localised food production system into an urban setting in Wellington, New Zealand, through the cross-programming of urban agriculture with architecture. The research aims to provide social and environmental benefits to a community and place, as well as raise awareness of the importance of a sustainable and accessible food system. This thesis suggests that merging architecture and urban agriculture can positively improve the quality of life of the residents as well as positively benefiting the surrounding environment and biodiversity.</p>


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