Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver

Bowness, Evan; Wittman, Hannah

doi:10.1080/03066150.2020.1803842

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“…Others may view hens as contributing to the local and global community, decreasing pressure on the larger structural food systems (Kim, 2012). Bowness and Wittman (2020) identify these actions as urban agrarianism with a call for urban people, especially those with privilege, to mobilize for food sovereignty struggles. There are cross-level connections needed involving rights and responsibilities beyond changing bylaws to accommodate urban hens, which will help to work toward an ecologically and socially just food system.…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban hen legislation: Exposing an unexpected public health problem

2022

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Urban hen keeping is one means for local food production, allowing for control over the supply. Many Canadian cities allow urban hens, while others are opposed to this form of urban agriculture. The purpose of this research was to understand the controversy of urban hens to support communities facing challenging futures. We report on the qualitative portion of a stepwise mixed methods study of 15 urban residents. Data consisted of semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis derived from open coding and selective coding based on a system change conceptual framework. Three main discourse areas on the struggle with urban hen bylaws included education on urban agriculture, differing values and visions for city life, and tensions between individual rights and the collective good.

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Urban hen legislation: Exposing an unexpected public health problem

2022

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“…We contribute to critical research on food sovereignty in two main ways. First, while most studies of food sovereignty have focused on peasant and family farmers in rural areas (Agarwal 2014), our research contributes to the growing literature on urban and peri‐urban spaces (see, for instance, Bowness and Wittman 2021; García‐Sempere et al. 2018; Resler and Hagolani‐Albov 2021; Siebert 2020).…”

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Feeding the City and Making the Revolution: Women and Urban Agriculture in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

2022

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The everyday difficulties faced by working‐class women, including access to food, are aggravated in critical periods, such as wars and economic crises. However, the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was accompanied by a revolution, in the Republican zones, where women opened spaces for their emancipation. By examining social reproduction practices surrounding food in Barcelona during the years 1936–1939, we contribute to critical research on food sovereignty in the urban contexts. Our core findings inform the role of women in food provision and production, through individual subsistence agriculture, involvement in Barcelona’s anarcho‐syndicalist agricultural collective, as well as in agriculture education and training programmes. Our research is based on original archival data, historical press and interviews with witnesses of the war. We conclude that revolutionary and transformative actions, including current food sovereignty practices, need to make gender justice a central goal.

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“…According to Bowness and Wittman's (2020) concept of urban agrarianism and its associated ethics, the education and growing awareness of biological health and cultural sovereignty in urban cultivation spaces is a collective responsibility, particularly for those whose privilege enables power in urban landscapes. Ultimately, this responsibility can yield the kind of consumer awareness that might facilitate the conservation of valuable at-risk forest species in urban and rural locations alike by generating a willingness to pay for the price premiums associated with sustainable cultivation practices (Burkhart & Jacobson, 2009).…”

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Exploring ‘beyond‐food’ opportunities for biocultural conservation in urban forest gardens

Hemmelgarn

Munsell

2021

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Urban agroforestry efforts have focused primarily on food production, but these dynamic, multiple-strata systems can host a much broader set of functions. This exploratory synthesis describes opportunities and considerations for urban forest gardens' (UFG) capacity to include diverse, biologically important, and culturally relevant nontimber forest species that have medicinal properties, provide decorative and landscaping products, supply raw material for crafts, and other valuable outputs. Literature relevant to social and ecological aspects of design for 'beyond-food' specialty forest crops in urban forest gardens reveals a need for collaborative, participatory, and culturally relevant UFG decision making that addresses access inequities, potential contamination from urban pollutants, and a continued need for education and awareness of UFG multifunctionality. These production spaces can serve as both a biological and cultural repository for species that may be otherwise overlooked in a narrowly oriented food garden, though case study examples indicating contextual elements of implementation are needed to understand specific cultural and health sovereignty benefits. Currently, traditional tropical homegardens serve as a model for biocultural diversity in small-scale urban green spaces. Incorporating conservation goals into urban agroforestry initiatives at varying scales holds potential for growing interest in and commitment to building capacity for this emergent land use.Abbreviations: CIS, critical interpretive synthesis; NTFP, nontimber forest product; UFG, urban forest gardenThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Urban hen legislation: Exposing an unexpected public health problem

Urban hen legislation: Exposing an unexpected public health problem

Feeding the City and Making the Revolution: Women and Urban Agriculture in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Exploring ‘beyond‐food’ opportunities for biocultural conservation in urban forest gardens

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