Gathering “wild” food in the city: rethinking the role of foraging in urban ecosystem planning and management

McLain, Rebecca J.; Hurley, Patrick T.; Emery, Marla R.; Poe, Melissa R.

doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.841659

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“…Given the documentation of people foraging in such diverse settings as several US cities [11,13], Bangalore [19], Delhi [28], Stockholm [29], Edinburgh [23], urban and peri-urban areas in Japan [30], Uganda 45], and towns in South Africa [27,31], there is reason to believe it occurs in cities and towns hitherto not researched. In the studies referred to here, the species harvested included fungi, flowers, berries, medicinal plants, and much more.…”

Section: Emerging Themes Of Urban Foragingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, this relatively narrow emphasis is slowly changing. There is growing recognition that a variety of urban green areas also produce goods that can be harvested, and the practices associated with doing so are important in their own right [4,6,13].…”

Section: Emerging Themes Of Urban Foragingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Foragers find plant materials and fungi of interest to them in city parks, institutional campuses, street tree planting areas, remnant urban woodlots, vacant lots, cemeteries, transportation and other infrastructure rights-of-way, residential yards, and allotment gardens [11,13,[38][39][40]. Interviews with foragers about their typical practices have detailed the importance of having access to a wide diversity of forest, shrub, and understory plants, including wild and native species, ornamental plantings, ruderal species, and spontaneous vegetation [4,11,26,[38][39][40].…”

Section: Theme 2: Urban Foraging Occurs Across the Full Range Of Urbamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Foraging: A Ubiquitous Human Practice Overlooked by Urban Planners, Policy, and Research

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Abstract:Although hardly noticed or formally recognised, urban foraging by humans probably occurs in all urban settings around the world. We draw from research in India, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States to demonstrate the ubiquity and varied nature of urban foraging in different contexts. Across these different contexts, we distil seven themes that characterise and thereby advance thinking about research and the understanding of urban foraging. We show that it is widespread and occurs across a variety of urban spaces and places. The species used and the local practices vary between contexts, and are in constant flux as urban ecological and social settings change. This requires that urban foragers are knowledgeable about diverse species, harvest locations, and rights of access, and that their practices are adaptable to changing contexts. Despite its ubiquity, most cities have some forms of regulations that prohibit or discourage urban foraging. We highlight a few important exceptions that can provide prototypes and lessons for other cities regarding supportive policy frameworks and initiatives. The formulation of dynamic policy, design, and management strategies in support of urban foraging will benefit from understanding the common characteristics of foraging in cities worldwide, but also will require comprehension of the specific and dynamic contexts in which they would be implemented.

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Section: Emerging Themes Of Urban Foragingmentioning

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Section: Theme 2: Urban Foraging Occurs Across the Full Range Of Urbamentioning

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“…significance, e.g., for recreation (Note 5), and even ecological significance, i.e., when people wish to "commune" with nature as for instance most urban foragers do (McLain et al, 2014). There is thus a second goal associated with foraging, which can be defined as a socio-cultural goal.…”

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Foraging Wild Resources and Sustainable Economic Development

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“…Within an urban context, foraging frequently occurs in parks, along trails and waterways but can also include gathering from lawns and more highly urbanized spaces [53]. Many municipalities and urban planners reject deriving products as a legitimate function of urban forests.…”

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Foraging Wild Resources: Evolving Goals of an Ubiquitous Human Behavior

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2016

Anthropol

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Although human foraging behavior, i.e., the method used to get food procurement from the wild, is the economic criterion usually used in the academic literature in order to define hunter-gatherer societies, it is restricted neither to these societies nor to this goal. It consists of the extraction of natural resources by means of various techniques, such as hunting, fishing and gathering. It is applied to a broad range of wild resources -aquatic and terrestrial, plants, animals and minerals -even though in some cases it could be limited only to some of these resources such as the non-timber forest products (NTFPs). The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that while foraging is an ubiquitous human behavior, its goals are evolving with the passage of time. More precisely these goals that exist today have been present in some form in the past, only their importance and emphasis has changed over time and with the historical, sociological and ecological contexts. While subsistence seems naturally the most obvious motivation of human foraging behavior, the latter also occurs in various contexts such as in mixed economies. Moreover, other goals -different from the biological one -also exist. Indeed, foraging can be a mean to obtain a -primary or secondary -source of income provided through trade of harvested wild products. Socio-cultural goals may also motivate human foraging behavior. They are related to culture and heritage, recreational values, or to environmental conservation and sustainability, the latter being exemplified for instance by the recent movement of urban foragers.

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Gathering “wild” food in the city: rethinking the role of foraging in urban ecosystem planning and management

Cited by 169 publications

References 36 publications

Urban Foraging: A Ubiquitous Human Practice Overlooked by Urban Planners, Policy, and Research

Urban Foraging: A Ubiquitous Human Practice Overlooked by Urban Planners, Policy, and Research

Foraging Wild Resources and Sustainable Economic Development

Foraging Wild Resources: Evolving Goals of an Ubiquitous Human Behavior

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