Expanding the social performance of food production landscapes: measuring health and well-being benefits

Burke, Ellen

doi:10.1080/01426397.2017.1353069

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“…Horticulture offers a series of intangible benefits for those who take part in the activity and spend time in food producing landscapes. Most evidence of this has been obtained from community gardening studies and very vulnerable populations [42,60,84,85,[91][92][93]. However, at least 50% of the presently included papers reported non-physical wellbeing and quality of life accounts from the participants, mostly showing positive results.…”

Section: Psychosocial Aspects Equity Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results presented in this section show that FNS centred HG interventions can be enriched. It could be by evaluating their effect on emotional, affective, and social integration outcomes as they could be important for maintaining the changes [91]. Indeed, study participants have stated that engaging in…”

Section: Psychosocial Aspects Equity Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainability in home garden interventions to improve food security: Results, challenges, and future directions

Hernández-Aguilar¹,

Dominguez-Hernandez

2022

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Food and nutrition security (FNS) is a priority for human development since different facets of malnutrition still prevail in many parts of the world. Home garden interventions (HGI) have been proposed to improve FNS, generally obtaining positive results. This review aimed to evaluate reports of HGI, discussing their characteristics and outcomes in terms of three sustainability dimensions (social, environmental, and economic). A total of 40 papers (n-number of papers) were included, mainly published since 2009. According to literature review, measurement, or discussion of economic (productivity, n=20) and social (diet improvement, n=33) outcomes has taken precedence over environmental ones (agrodiversity, n=15) in HGI’s impact assessment (IA). Furthermore, sustainability has not been assessed beyond the continuity of the proposed changes (n=5). Future HGI should apply Systemic-Transdisciplinary approaches with adequate metrics and multidimensional IA methodologies linking FNS and sustainable development. This would allow a contextualisation of the research, establishing the current situation of the study system and identifying precise needs. Also, it would be possible to identify and monitor trade-offs and synergies of the intervention. Such approach would generate a strong body of scientific evidence and awareness of the benefits of a sustainable agricultural system in the prevention and treatment of the double burden of malnutrition (hidden hunger and overweight/obesity).

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Section: Psychosocial Aspects Equity Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Psychosocial Aspects Equity Community Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability in home garden interventions to improve food security: Results, challenges, and future directions

Hernández-Aguilar¹,

Dominguez-Hernandez

2022

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“…Another contribution of performance evaluation is the quantitative demonstration of a landscape project's environmental, social, and economic benefits-the three pillar areas supported by sustainability science (Burton 1987;Singh et al 2012). The past few years witnessed the successful implementation of several programs at the LAF and other agencies, which produced many studies that report project performance benefits and impacts (Myers 2013; Luo and Li 2014;Burke 2018;Yang 2018, pp. 250-255).…”

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Landscape performance evaluation in socio-ecological practice: current status and prospects

Yang

2019

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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In the past decade, performance evaluation becomes a priority area in research and practice in the landscape architecture profession, with its influence originating from the USA and extending to other countries. The goal is to quantitatively demonstrate the environmental, social, and economic benefits of built landscape projects or, at the planning and design stage, to gauge the project's level of fulfilment to intended goals. Structurally, the evaluation framework facilitates a healthy partnership of diverse stakeholders, including researchers, designers, clients, users, and policy makers. When adaptive design, design for resilience, and design under the uncertainty of climate change become the new norms in landscape architecture practice, performance metrics will gain interest in the communication of design merits. The author reports the current status of landscape performance evaluation by introducing the major players in this enterprise, including supporting professional organizations, accrediting and regulating agencies, research programs, and leading professional firms. In addition, 102 published landscape performance evaluation case studies are analyzed to demonstrate their contributions at the scholarly, practical, and policy levels. Last, the author suggests that the current scope of performance evaluation be expanded and offers recommendations for future development in this area.

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“…It has also been found that the success of agricultural interventions is also linked to the inclusion of education and training elements in their design (see Domínguez Hernández et al in this special issue for a review [49]). More importantly, the collaboration element may have helped the beneficiaries to prevent disadoption of the proposed practices by providing continuous support, emotional and technical, needed to overcome possible limitations, strengthen community integration, and increase ownership of the program [51,52]. In the present case, we attribute the higher rate of sustainable practice adoption to the collaboration and mutual learning aspects during the TS; since producers were able to learn the practices but also to freely adapt them and combine them with their own personal agricultural knowledge to address the specific biophysical conditions of their This could be explained due to their previous experiences with government interventions in which they were left alone and there was no training or technical assistance to guarantee the results and the implementation of the proposed changes, which were often difficult to perform.…”

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Transdisciplinary Interventions to Improve the Sustainability of Maize Agroecosystems: A Case Study from Mexico

Hernandez

Dominguez-Hernandez

Martinez-Barrera

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The municipality of Ahuazotepec presented a complex food insecurity scenario, mainly because there are limitations regarding food supply/local maize production and the inhabitants so their access to food can be disrupted quite easily. A transdisciplinary approach and methodology were adapted to analyze, design, implement, and evaluate an agricultural intervention to improve agroecosystems in the region using agroecological practices. The experimental results indicated that the application of agroecological fertilization management improved soil fertility indicators, grain yield, benefit-to-cost ratio, and the resilience of the system. For the intervention, when a transdisciplinary scheme in which collaboration between actors was intensified, the benefits are greater than in a conventional scheme, where only economic or in-kind aid is provided, even when based on similar practices.

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Expanding the social performance of food production landscapes: measuring health and well-being benefits

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Sustainability in home garden interventions to improve food security: Results, challenges, and future directions

Sustainability in home garden interventions to improve food security: Results, challenges, and future directions

Landscape performance evaluation in socio-ecological practice: current status and prospects

Transdisciplinary Interventions to Improve the Sustainability of Maize Agroecosystems: A Case Study from Mexico

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