scholarly journals Urban agriculture in Havana – evidence from empirical research

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Ada Górna ◽  
Krzysztof Górny
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Aerial Imagery ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Production Technique ◽  
Classification Approach ◽  
Organization Of Production ◽  
The City ◽  
Prior Analysis

AbstractThe aim of this article is to indicate the features of contemporary urban agriculture present in the contiguously built-up areas of Havana. Using an exploratory and classification approach, the authors draw on fieldwork and a prior analysis of satellite and aerial imagery, first to characterize the spatial distribution of urban gardens and then to point to their main intrinsic features, including the methods and organization of production and the functions performed. The research conducted shows that urban agriculture is distributed across the city in an uneven fashion, with the main concentration in districts of lower-density urban construction, which reflects the availability of land resources intentionally left between buildings by modernist planners. The most common production technique applied is organopónico, or organoponics. However, the material commonly used to construct the bordering walls is asbestos, which may pose a significant threat for both producers and consumers. Two case studies are analyzed to exemplify different approaches to organic food production.

scholarly journals Multitemporal Geospatial Evaluation of Urban Agriculture and (Non)-Sustainable Food Self-Provisioning in Milan, Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Pulighe ◽  
Flavio Lupia
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Ancillary Data ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The City

Urban agriculture in Global North cities is strongly promoted as a sustainable solution to achieve different goals, such as food production, quality of life, and well-being. Although several attempts have been made to evaluate urban agriculture production, few studies have investigated food production in a multitemporal geospatial way and considered per capita population needs, gender, and age strata consumption. This study presents a spatiotemporal quantification of urban agriculture in the city of Milan (Italy) for assessing food self-provisioning potential. We utilized high-resolution Google Earth images and ancillary data to create a detailed cadaster of urban agriculture for the years 2007 and 2014. Based on four scenarios of food production and statistical data on vegetables and cereals consumption, we estimated current total production and requirements for the city dwellers. Our results showed that the actual extension of vegetable gardens (98 ha) and arable land (2539 ha) in the best scenario could satisfy approximately 63,700 and 321,000 consumers of vegetables and cereal products, respectively. Overall, current urban agriculture production is not able to meet vegetables and cereal consumption for more than 1.3 million city residents. Scenario estimates suggest rethinking land use promoting horticultural production to achieve more sustainable food systems.

Rescuing Public Spaces for Organic Food Production and Its Economic, Social, and Environmental Impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Jessica Davalos ◽  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Hostile Environments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Economic difficulties and hostile environments are elements that are constantly affecting inhabitants of marginalized areas. Unemployment, poverty, and insecurity are part of the everyday life in these neighborhoods. However, this study observes that engaging in gardening activities can offer the inhabitants of these areas a relief of their distressed life. The objective of this paper is to analyze a successful case of abandoned areas that were revitalized into urban gardens. Moreover, the impact on the well-being of inhabitants from an economic, sociological, and environmental perspective will be presented with the example of the collective Organic Eden in the city of Guadalajara in Mexico.

Motivations for Investing in Allotment Gardening in Dublin: A Sociological Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Kettle
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The City

In recent years, Dublin has witnessed a demonstrable rise in urban agriculture (UA) initiatives. Allotments and community gardens are emerging in abundance in the city and on its perimeter. Traditionally, allotments were associated with older men and lower socio-economic groups. However, recent practices indicate a significant shift in the traditional demographics engaging in practice. Those investing are increasingly younger, from the middle classes, and include more and more women. But what is motivating practice? What has caused this shift? And why are professionals in an advanced capitalist society choosing to cultivate food in and around the contemporary urban metropolis? Drawing on empirical investigations in Dublin between 2011 and 2013, this article argues that the revival of the urban allotment in Dublin after many years of abeyance represents a form of resistance to the dis-embedding processes associated with late and post modernity, and an explicit attempt by urban dwellers to (re)connect with traditional forms of knowledge, the land, and practice (food production systems), but primarily to (re)connect with others, to generate a sense of community, and to restore a sense of belonging in the city.

scholarly journals Rooftop Hydroponics: Opportunity for Urban Agriculture in Godawari Municipality of Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Sunil Babu Shrestha ◽  
Bijan Shrestha ◽  
Marina Vaidya Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Fresh Vegetables ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits ◽  
The City

Urbanization is growing in Nepal at a rapid pace with an increasing number of municipalities. Due to rapid urbanization, agricultural lands have been converting into buildings and infrastructures. This has negatively impacted the urban environment with decreased greeneries, open space, local food production, and groundwater recharge. In this context, this study aimed to explore the opportunity of roof-top hydroponics for urban agriculture in Godawari Municipality. A questionnaire survey was done in ward-14 of Godawari Municipality from November 2018 to December 2018 with a sample size of 64 households. A stratified random sampling method was applied for the household selection. Out of 64 respondents, 45 (71.31%) achieved high opportunity scores based on eight factors: Space, Willingness, Affordability, Manpower, Time, Knowledge, Technology, and Acceptance with incentives. Thus, roof-top hydroponics has a high opportunity for practicing urban agriculture to provide greeneries, fresh vegetables and fruits to the city dwellers locally in Godawari Municipality for realizing the concept of Food Green City.

scholarly journals The Farm in the City in the Recent Past: Thoughts on a More Inclusive Urban Historiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Glasser
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
City Government ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Agriculture Policy ◽  
Marketing Operations ◽  
The City

The scholarly and journalistic literature usually treats urban agriculture as a new phenomenon, but it is a neglected dimension of urban history. Some U.S. cities, at least in the Northeast, had food-raising and processing practices not just in colonial times but up until the relatively recent past. Three areas of history are explored that have mostly omitted discussion of city food production but nonetheless provide important frameworks to explore such production: urban development, agricultural, and immigrant history. Woven throughout this piece is evidence from a study of Waterbury, Connecticut. Local food production did not die when the Industrial Revolution came to Waterbury. Farms and other food-producing, processing, and marketing operations remained and even adapted to the growing city’s needs and resources. The city government both supported and undermined agriculture in ways that add to an understanding of urban history and are lessons for current urban agriculture policy.

scholarly journals The State аnd Areas under Organic Vegetable Production in the Republic of Serbia

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Golijan ◽  
Ljubiša Živanović ◽  
Aleksandar Popović
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Jerusalem Artichoke ◽  
Organic Production ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Organic Vegetable Production ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Due to extremely favourable soil and climate conditions, vegetable production has been traditionally developing in the Republic of Serbia. This study presents the areas under organic vegetable production in Serbia in the 2012-2015 period. In 2015, vegetable production, based on organic principles, was performed on the area of 170.5 ha, with the greatest potential in the region of the Province of Vojvodina (80%). The smallest areas with organic production of vegetables were recorded in the City of Belgrade. Organicaly produced vegetables mainly consist of bean, popping maize, potato, Jerusalem artichoke, gourd and pepper. In spite of poorly developed market not only of vegetable production, but the entire sector of organic food production in Serbia, the number of organic food producers has been rapidly growing and with the adequate investment, credit–monetary and export support by the government, vegetable production could become the most important production in our country.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Agriculture in São Paulo, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6185
Author(s):  
André Ruoppolo Biazoti ◽  
Angélica Campos Nakamura ◽  
Gustavo Nagib ◽  
Vitória Oliveira Pereira de Souza Leão ◽  
Giulia Giacchè ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Sales Channels ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

During the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers worldwide were greatly affected by disruptions in the food chain. In 2020, São Paulo city experienced most of the effects of the pandemic in Brazil, with 15,587 deaths through December 2020. Here, we describe the impacts of COVID-19 on urban agriculture (UA) in São Paulo from April to August 2020. We analyzed two governmental surveys of 2100 farmers from São Paulo state and 148 from São Paulo city and two qualitative surveys of volunteers from ten community gardens and seven urban farmers. Our data showed that 50% of the farmers were impacted by the pandemic with drops in sales, especially those that depended on intermediaries. Some farmers in the city adapted to novel sales channels, but 22% claimed that obtaining inputs became difficult. No municipal support was provided to UA in São Paulo, and pre-existing issues were exacerbated. Work on community gardens decreased, but no garden permanently closed. Post COVID-19, UA will have the challenge of maintaining local food chains established during the pandemic. Due to the increase in the price of inputs and the lack of technical assistance, governmental efforts should be implemented to support UA.

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