Characteristics and motivations of potential users of urban allotment gardens: The case of Vila Nova de Gaia municipal network of urban allotment gardens

Silva, Isabel Martinho da; Fernandes, Cláudia Oliveira; Castiglione, Beatriz; Costa, Leonardo

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2016.07.014

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“…These include socio-economic status (mostly based on age and income), past gardening experience, activeness on gardening, the distance traveled by gardeners to gardens, and needs and motives [5,[20][21][22]. Further, academics have recognized the link between such diversity and varying motivations for participation [23,24]. For instance, low-income gardeners have been found to be mostly driven to participate in gardening by subsistence needs due to a need for access to inexpensive food.…”

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Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

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Matarrita‐Cascante

2019

Sustainability

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Studies on participation in community gardens have revealed that gardeners’ participation is driven by functional and emotional motives. Most studies, however, have failed to recognize gardeners’ diverse characteristics. To fill this research gap, this study examined the moderating effect that variations within gardeners has on their participation, particularly as in the case of past gardening experience. The data for this study were obtained through a survey administered in three plot-based community gardens in Austin, Texas. Results revealed that increased gardening experience bolsters the effect of emotional motivations on garden participation, while no effect was shown in the relationship between functional motivations and participation. The importance of gardeners’ past gardening experience on emotional motivations is discussed as it relates to sustained participation in gardening.

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Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

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Matarrita‐Cascante

2019

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“…Municipalities play a crucial role in supporting UPA by providing access to land and legal permissions [133,134]. However, the initiators of UPA initiatives such as community gardens are mostly driven by NGOs or civic groups [133].…”

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“…Studies showed that reasons for urban gardening are environmental concerns for educated residents. In contrast, for low-income and unemployed gardeners urban gardens can support the access to food and supplement the family budget [134]. In this regard, UPA gains importance for poor people and people out of work in particular in light of current financial and economic crisis, such as shown in the example of Lisbon (Portugal) [135] (see also Section 3.2.2 (challenge 2)).…”

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“…In this regard, it must also be mentioned that social justice of UPA can be harmed such as due to race-and class-based disparities among UPA practitioners [142,143]. In the end, it can be concluded, that for a successful civic agriculture there is no strategy which fits all cities but the various planning, economic and cultural framework conditions of each city UPA is embedded [133,144] as well as the socio-economic and cultural background of the residents and their position within the community need to be considered [134,145].…”

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

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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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“…While there is a detailed academic literature on community gardens in international journals, most of it has focused on gardens in low-income areas of industrial cities of the Global North (Guitart et al, 2012). More recently, efforts have been made to understand the heterogeneous set of gardening initiatives in other geographies, such as Southern Europe, in a context of political and economic crisis (Casadevante and Morán, 2015;Martinho da Silva et al, 2016). In a similar vein, urban gardening has been proposed as a temporary use for vacant urban land (Drake and Lawson, 2014;Németh and Langhorst, 2014).…”

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Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona

Calvet-Mir

March

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Throughout the 20th century, urban gardening in central and northern Europe as well as in North America has received a great deal of academic attention. However, the recent proliferation of urban gardening in other geographies, such as southern Europe in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008, remains underexplored. The economic crisis put on hold urban developments in many southern European cities, leaving idle plots of land waiting to be urbanized. The crisis also triggered radical political demands, such as those of the Indignados, as well as fuelling narratives revolving around social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Barcelona emerges as a laboratory of urban gardening initiatives in vacant lots mobilizing either radical urban demands or embedding new post-crisis rhetoric around social entrepreneurship. Through a combination of qualitative methods, including participant observation, a literature review, semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and field diaries, we present a characterization and evolution of the three most prominent urban gardening initiatives in the city of Barcelona (including 54 gardens at the end of 2016): the Network of Municipal Gardens (municipally led gardens for retired people); the Network of Communitarian Gardens (social movements); and the Empty Plots Plan (social entrepreneurial urban gardening). Subsequently, we discuss the different meanings of gardening in crisis/post-crisis Barcelona as well as the urban politics that each initiative articulates. Our results show that urban gardens within the city are an expression of different and non-exclusive meanings that explicitly or implicitly, in a context of crisis and post-crisis, mobilize notions of political gardening.

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Characteristics and motivations of potential users of urban allotment gardens: The case of Vila Nova de Gaia municipal network of urban allotment gardens

Abstract: Characteristicsand motivations of potential users of urban allotment gardens: The case of Vila Nova de Gaia municipal network of urban allotment gardens.

Cited by 37 publications

References 20 publications

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

Gardeners’ Past Gardening Experience and Its Moderating Effect on Community Garden Participation

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

Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona

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