Urban agriculture in the city of São Paulo: New spatial transformations and ongoing challenges to guarantee the production and consumption of healthy food

Nagib, Gustavo; Nakamura, Angélica Campos

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100378

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“…Nevertheless, the cultural bundle was seen to be of similar importance. Urban farmers recognized UA as an activity with important services that enabled vulnerable people to improve their lives and well-being (Cantor, 2010;Costa et al, 2015;Batitucci et al, 2019), and allow sharing popular and traditional knowledge (Montes and Gómez, 2011;Gold, 2014;Fernández et al, 2020), enjoying aesthetic or scenic beauty (Lattuca and Terrile, 2014;Urbana et al, 2019), promoting tourism (Losada et al, 2000;Lattuca and Terrile, 2014), to organizing fairs (Niederle et al, 2018;Peralta-González et al, 2019), and educational and recreational activities (Urbana et al, 2019;Nagib and Nakamura, 2020), or recognizing that UA promotes the maintenance of urban biodiversity (Pino et al, 2007;do Amaral and Guarim Neto, 2008;Alomía-Lucero et al, 2020).…”

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Urban Agriculture in Latin America: A Green Culture Beyond Growing and Feeding

Castellarini

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Over the coming decades, the level of urbanization in Latin America (LA) is expected to increase nearly 90%, with unwanted consequences such as accentuated socio-economic inequalities, food insecurity, violence, and environmental and health crises. In LA countries, urban agriculture (UA) has been adopted as one of the major strategies to address urban poverty and food insecurity, which have increased for different drivers, such as population growth, economic crises, or forced migration. Nevertheless, experience in these countries has demonstrated that urban agriculture is a complex activity that involves multiple benefits, risks, actors, processes, scales, and interactions. In this review, I analyse urban agriculture in LA countries using the ecosystems services framework as a tool to integrate UA functionalities and the four sustainability dimensions. I considered five issues derived from plant production: (1) ecosystem services, benefits, assets, drivers, and stakeholders in UA; (2) ecosystem services bundles; (3) economic and socio-cultural factors associated with the ecosystem services bundles; (4) research progress in LA countries; (5) issues and possible strategic directions in decision-making of UA in the LA region. Using proxy variables, a total of 17 ecosystem services, six benefits, six assets, and six indirect drivers were recognized. Projections of the 17 variables over the four dimensions of sustainable development showed that the environmental dimension was most studied than the social, economic, and governance dimensions. Most of strengths of UA in LA were related to ecosystem services, benefits, and beneficiaries; main weaknesses were related to the misuse of inputs, and human and environmental health; threats were related to regulation, governance and land tenure issues, and opportunities to several topics related to the four dimensions of sustainability. The concepts, frameworks, and methods used in this study may be effective tools to make scientific information available to managers and decision makers.

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Urban Agriculture in Latin America: A Green Culture Beyond Growing and Feeding

Castellarini

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…The urban poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity [ 16 ]; unlike the rural poor, they have less access to land for farming, making it harder for them to produce their own food when food is in short supply or they cannot afford to buy it. Additionally, while the urban poor face significant challenges in accessing any kind of food, challenges are even more formidable in terms of obtaining healthful food [ 86 ]. In addition, the co-occurrence analysis indicated that cooperation among developed countries is frequent.…”

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Urban Food Systems: A Bibliometric Review from 1991 to 2020

Zhong

Wang

Cui

2021

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The increase of urbanization is affecting the urban food system (UFS) in many areas, primarily production, processing, and consumption. The upgrading of the urban food consumption structure not only puts forward higher food production requirements, but also poses a challenge to resource consumption and technological innovation. Considerable case or review studies have been conducted on UFS, but there is no bibliometric review attempting to provide an objective and comprehensive analysis of the existing articles. In this study, we selected 5360 research publications from the core Web of Science collection from 1991 to 2020, analyzing contributions of countries, institutions, and journals. In addition, based on keyword co-occurrence and clustering analyses, we evaluated the research hotspots of UFS. The results show that global research interest in UFS has increased significantly during these three decades. The USA, China, and the UK are the countries with the highest output and closest collaborations. UFS research involves multiple subject categories, with environmental disciplines becoming mainstream. Food security, food consumption, and food waste are the three main research areas. We suggest that food sustainability and resilience, food innovation, and comparative studies between cities should be given more attention in the future.

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“…We used the classification proposed by Nagib and Nakamura (2020) [11], which broadly divides UA into two scenarios in São Paulo: commercial UA and communitybased, noncommercial UA. Commercial farmers are usually located on city outskirts or in peri-urban areas.…”

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“…sp.gov.br/, accessed on 14 January 2021). Noncommercial community gardens have an important socioenvironmental education role, strengthening community ties within the urban territory, fostering sustainability, and demonstrating the possibility of producing food within the urban space [11].…”

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Agriculture in São Paulo, Brazil

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During the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers worldwide were greatly affected by disruptions in the food chain. In 2020, São Paulo city experienced most of the effects of the pandemic in Brazil, with 15,587 deaths through December 2020. Here, we describe the impacts of COVID-19 on urban agriculture (UA) in São Paulo from April to August 2020. We analyzed two governmental surveys of 2100 farmers from São Paulo state and 148 from São Paulo city and two qualitative surveys of volunteers from ten community gardens and seven urban farmers. Our data showed that 50% of the farmers were impacted by the pandemic with drops in sales, especially those that depended on intermediaries. Some farmers in the city adapted to novel sales channels, but 22% claimed that obtaining inputs became difficult. No municipal support was provided to UA in São Paulo, and pre-existing issues were exacerbated. Work on community gardens decreased, but no garden permanently closed. Post COVID-19, UA will have the challenge of maintaining local food chains established during the pandemic. Due to the increase in the price of inputs and the lack of technical assistance, governmental efforts should be implemented to support UA.

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Urban agriculture in the city of São Paulo: New spatial transformations and ongoing challenges to guarantee the production and consumption of healthy food

Cited by 17 publications

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Urban Agriculture in Latin America: A Green Culture Beyond Growing and Feeding

Urban Agriculture in Latin America: A Green Culture Beyond Growing and Feeding

Urban Food Systems: A Bibliometric Review from 1991 to 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Agriculture in São Paulo, Brazil

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