Collective efficacy in Denver, Colorado: Strengthening neighborhoods and health through community gardens

Teig, Ellen; Amulya, Joy; Bardwell, Lisa; Buchenau, Michael; Marshall, Julie A.; Litt, Jill

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.06.003

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“…Some reports suggest that UA is an important strategy to increase food and health literacy 7,20,21 . Several community and urban farm programs included nutrition information that discussed healthful food choices at the request of communities 2,[21][22][23][24][25][26] .…”

Section: Health Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gearing up to support urban farming in California: Preliminary results of a needs assessment

Surls¹,

Feenstra

Golden

et al. 2014

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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According to the United States Census, California is the most urban state in the nation. Although there are many outstanding examples of urban farms in California, in general, urban agriculture (UA) has been slower to gain momentum here than in some other states with large urban populations. Over the past several years, urban agriculture's popularity in California has begun to escalate, with strong emerging interest in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles and other metropolitan communities. One challenge for urban farmers and municipal decision makers engaged with UA in California has been limited availability of relevant information and technical assistance. A new project team at the University of California Cooperative Extension, part of the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) is working to develop web-based educational resources that will be grounded in a needs assessment that is currently underway. The needs assessment includes a literature review, an internal survey of UC ANR personnel, and community clientele interviews. This paper will report on preliminary findings and analyses of the needs assessment, particularly how UC ANR personnel are engaged with UA, and what tools they think would best serve urban farmers. We suggest implications for those involved with UA, such as personnel of land-grant universities, local governments and non-profits seeking to address the needs of urban farmers in an environment of constrained resources.

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Section: Health Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several community and urban farm programs included nutrition information that discussed healthful food choices at the request of communities 2,[21][22][23][24][25][26] . These programs, as well as CSAs and farmers' markets, raised nutrition awareness and increased healthy cooking and eating practices 3,19,[26][27][28]30,35,36,48 .…”

Section: Health Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gearing up to support urban farming in California: Preliminary results of a needs assessment

Surls¹,

Feenstra

Golden

et al. 2014

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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“…As a subversive movement, the practice of UA generally increases social capital, civic involvement, community efficacy, and empowerment (Armstrong, 2000;Ferris, Norman, & Sempik, 2001;Gittelsohn & Sharma, 2009;Teig et al, 2009). In addition, studies have identified public participation as a crucial component of the food security planning process (Jacobsen, Pruitt-Chapin, & Rugeley, 2009;McCullum, Desjardins, Kraak, Ladipo, & Costello, 2005;Vasquez, Lanza, Hennessey-Lavery, Facente, Halpin, & Minkler, 2007).…”

Section: Ua and Food Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other relevant quantitative studies have discussed community food access and spatial inequality (Hallett & McDermott, 2011;Hubley, 2011;Raja, Ma, & Yadav, 2008;Russell & Heidkamp, 2011;Smoyer-Tomic et al, 2008) and the potential and capacity of urban food production (Kremer & DeLiberty, 2011;Metcalf & Widener, 2011). On the other hand, many researchers have studied community gardening as a social process by using qualitative methods (Teig, Amulya, Bardwell, Buchenau, Marshall, & Litt, 2009). A smaller group has used mixed-methods or a qualitative GIS approach to combine these two types of research (Corrigan, 2011;Knigge & Cope, 2006).…”

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Community Food Security via Urban Agriculture: Understanding People, Place, Economy, and Accessibility from a Food Justice Perspective

Meenar

Hoover

2012

JAFSCD

101

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“…Concepts of modern forestry, increasingly focusing on the multifunctional values of forest, are close to the idea of the fourth regime [38][39][40]. Permaculture [41], Agroforestry [42], Urban Agriculture [43], Community Gardens [44], Vertical Farming [45], and others are all specific models as alternatives and complements to the mainstream agricultural models and their emphasis on specialisation, scaling, independence from fossil fuels and from global markets. Landcare [29,46] has been presented as a success story about community based adoption of sustainable resource management.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Fourth Regime of Open Space

Gulinck

Marcheggiani

Verhoeve³

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:This article reinterprets open space as the theatre of adaptive regimes in the interfering wakes of two major waves of transformation: the agricultural and the urban transformation. The aim of the wave regime concept is to accommodate traditional and emerging land uses in a logical scheme of co-existing regimes separated by transition waves in space and time. Each wave corresponds to a transitional stage from one set to another set of value regime, which by the agents of the transformation is interpreted as a major value increase. The current struggle for space and the difficult interpretations of quality and sustainability can be explained as expressions of competition between value regimes. These value regimes tend to be driven and perpetuated by customary paradigms of land-use planning and management (urban planning, ecology, agronomy, etc.). Land-use sectors ask for rather unambiguous definitions and clear use rights of land use categories and zoning, leaving limited possibility for interaction, mixed regimes and innovative multifunctional land-use. New service demands, new sustainability and resilience urgencies challenge these customary land-use planning paradigms and their rules and instruments. This paper acknowledges a third wave and consequent fourth regime. This regime seeks overall increased sustainability and resilience in open spaces, stressing the strategic importance of unsealed soils and other life conditioning substrates. Different existing land-use models, such as "transition towns", "agroforestry" and many more, can be interpreted as fourth regime examples, but altogether there is a need for more coordination or integration to turn the third wave concept into a real "wave". A specific target is to scan territories for characteristics and values according to the prevailing regimes, and assess each unit in terms of third wave transition opportunities, even within active uses that may be at odds with customary rules and expectations. This is illustrated for cases of illegal intake of farmland for non-agricultural activities and for domestic gardens as a missing category in customary rural and land use policy.

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Collective efficacy in Denver, Colorado: Strengthening neighborhoods and health through community gardens

Cited by 272 publications

References 28 publications

Gearing up to support urban farming in California: Preliminary results of a needs assessment

Gearing up to support urban farming in California: Preliminary results of a needs assessment

Community Food Security via Urban Agriculture: Understanding People, Place, Economy, and Accessibility from a Food Justice Perspective

The Fourth Regime of Open Space

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