Facilitating resilient rural-to-urban sustainable agriculture and rural communities

Smith, George R.; Nandwani, Dilip; Kankarla, Vanaja

doi:10.1080/13504509.2016.1240723

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“…Direct sale from farmers to consumers is an option to have the affordable price for organic products. Community Support Agriculture (CSA), one of the possibilities for directly connecting consumers with farmers [36], should be concerned to practice in Vietnam. CSA is a partnership of mutual commitments between growers (producers) and members or shareholders (consumers).…”

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Driving and Deterrent Factors Affecting Organic Food Consumption in Vietnam

Tran¹,

Freytag-Leyer²,

Ploeger³

et al. 2019

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This study aims to determine driving factors significantly influencing the purchase intention and to identify impediments creating the intention-behavior gap regarding organic food consumption in Vietnam. The chosen driving factors affecting the organic food purchase intention in this study are health benefits, environmental awareness, and social norms, whereas trust, price, and convenience as well as availability are investigated as deterrent factors of the link between intention and behavior. A structured online questionnaire with snow-balling sampling method was distributed to collect a representative sample of 466 Vietnamese consumers nationwide. A five-point likert scale was used for the level of approval for 36 statements. Statistical tools of SPSS 22.0 including descriptive analysis, principal component analysis, and multiple regression analysis models were used for data analysis. The results showed that health benefits, environmental awareness, and social norms were facilitators of organic food purchase intention. Although high intention to purchase organic foods was identified in Vietnam, it was not translated into actual purchase behavior. The main barriers for the inconsistency were premium price and low availability of organic products or inconvenience to buy in the market. Lack of trust insignificantly impacted on organic food choices among Vietnamese consumers in this study. These empirical findings and suggestions are beneficial for all players across supply chains.

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confidence: 99%

Driving and Deterrent Factors Affecting Organic Food Consumption in Vietnam

Tran¹,

Freytag-Leyer²,

Ploeger³

et al. 2019

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“…Mexico is a world leader in the production, consumption and export of the avocado (Coronado et al 2015). A commodity case is described, offering emergent multi-level relationships and constructs (Yin 1994;Stanford 2002) that are theoretically connected (Leung et al 2002) to improve system resilience (Smith et al 2017).…”

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“…Resilience is the capacity of an agri-food system to absorb shock (Bousquet et al 2016) and the system's capability to prepare for, cope with, adapt and potentially transform (Schwarz et al 2011;Smith et al 2017). The resilience agenda is shared by those concerned with financial, political, conflict, disaster and climate threats to development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Anthropocene 4 as 'human impact on the planet' is critical to setting the enabling conditions for innovative projections such as: rediscovering local community skills and crafts; healthier food ingredients and sourcing; cleaner technologies for energy usage; and new materials for waste reduction; as business strategies to enhance self-sufficiency. Sustainability is then, context-sensitive (Dsouli et al 2017) and requires re-orientation of its resilience trajectory (Rockstrom et al 2009a(Rockstrom et al , 2009bSteffen et al 2015;Cooke et al 2016;Waters et al 2016;Smith et al 2017) as stewardship of the co-evolved, socio-ecological system (Folke et al 2004(Folke et al , 2016Whiteman et al 2013;Xu et al 2015).…”

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Socio-ecological resilience and environmental sustainability: case of avocado from Mexico

Khan

Kakabadse²,

Skouloudis

2021

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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Natural science impact assessments of sustainability evidence more closely than social and business studies frameworks that the interdependent planetary boundary (PB) limits are being breached. This brings to attention environmental ecological assessments are better placed as the starting point to inform how human action or inaction as socio-economic behaviours can influence environmental management resilience, rather than the other way around. This study identifies food security as a grand challenge. A socio-ecological cosmopolitan resilience framework is conceptualised and applied to the commodity case of the avocado from Michoacán, Mexico. Social, economic and policy issues are identified and captured as multi-level influences. These impact environmental management as biodiversity, land usage and freshwater sustainability at individual, firm and governmental levels. A variety of recommended simultaneous changes that may advance system-wide sustainability are considered as cultural, moral and governance dimensions for socio-ecological resilience. Our framework is important as natural science and social norms must inform business practice at all levels for environmental sustainability.

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“…UA ensures the continual supply of fresh agricultural produce to cities and waste reduction as well (Gerster-Bentaya, 2013;Malan, 2015). Moreover, food becomes local to indigenes of the urban areas, coupled with a reduction in the distance associated with transportation to access food (Smith et al, 2017). Food that is grown and eaten locally has the added advantage of reducing carbon emissions (Wang & Nevius, 2013).…”

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The Extent of Participation in Urban Agriculture and Its Effect on Food Security in Africa and Asia: Evidence from Ghana and India

Rk¹,

Sharma²,

Oppong-Kyeremeh³

2020

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This study examined the factors that influence the extent of urban agriculture participation and its effect on food security in Ghana and India. A total of six hundred and fifty urban agriculture farmers were interviewed for this study in Ghana and India. Food security status of urban households was assessed by the use of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale whereas the determinants of the extent of urban agriculture and its effect on food security were analysed by the use of the heteroskedastic linear regression and the Seemingly Unrelated Regression models, respectively. From the study on average, households in Ghana were mildly food insecure, but that of India was moderately food insecure. The results further revealed that, various demographic, economic, institutional and health and nutrition factors differently influenced urban food security and urban agriculture. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation positively influenced food security. It is recommended that, Governments and NGOs interested in the reduction of urban food insecurity should aggressively advocate for urban agriculture in urban households through extension education. Interests could be stimulated by gleaning on health benefits of urban agriculture such as producing safe and nutritious food, the opportunity to consume chemical-free food and pursue urban agriculture as a business. The implication for research is that similar studies can be conducted in other emerging urban cities in Africa and Asia for the advocacy for specific urban food security policies and programmes.

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Facilitating resilient rural-to-urban sustainable agriculture and rural communities

Cited by 22 publications

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Driving and Deterrent Factors Affecting Organic Food Consumption in Vietnam

Driving and Deterrent Factors Affecting Organic Food Consumption in Vietnam

Socio-ecological resilience and environmental sustainability: case of avocado from Mexico

The Extent of Participation in Urban Agriculture and Its Effect on Food Security in Africa and Asia: Evidence from Ghana and India

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