Urban Agriculture, Revalorization, and Green Gentrification in Denver, Colorado

Sbicca, Joshua

doi:10.1108/s0895-993520190000026011

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“…Furthermore, the revaluation of city districts through urban agriculture can attract wealthy residents to working-class neighborhoods. Consequently, this may result in 'green gentrification' which is characterized by increased housing pressure and displacement of long-time residents and urban farmers [60].…”

Section: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

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How Will We Eat and Produce in the Cities of the Future? From Edible Insects to Vertical Farming—A Study on the Perception and Acceptability of New Approaches

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Global challenges such as climate change, increasing urbanization and a lack of transparency of food chains, have led to the development of innovative urban food production approaches, such as rooftop greenhouses, vertical farms, indoor farms, aquaponics as well as production sites for edible insects or micro-algae. Those approaches are still at an early stage of development and partly unknown among the public. The aim of our study was to identify the perception of sustainability, social acceptability and ethical aspects of these new approaches and products in urban food production. We conducted 19 qualitative expert interviews and applied qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed that major perceived benefits are educational effects, revaluation of city districts, efficient resource use, exploitation of new protein sources or strengthening of local economies. Major perceived conflicts concern negative side-effects, legal constraints or high investment costs. The extracted acceptance factors deal significantly with the "unknown". A lack of understanding of the new approaches, uncertainty about their benefits, concerns about health risks, a lack of familiarity with the food products, and ethical doubts about animal welfare represent possible barriers. We conclude that adaptation of the unsuitable regulatory framework, which discourages investors, is an important first step to foster dissemination of the urban food production approaches.

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Section: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Will We Eat and Produce in the Cities of the Future? From Edible Insects to Vertical Farming—A Study on the Perception and Acceptability of New Approaches

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“…In practice, organizations must strategize ways to access land for their work. For organizations engaged in urban agriculture, this is especially challenging as food production can rarely compete with housing or upscale new retail [43]. Urban agriculture sits uneasily with market incentives to make money, which can mean reducing land access costs by collaborating with developers and institutions such as schools, churches, or businesses.…”

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Collaborative Concession in Food Movement Networks: The Uneven Relations of Resource Mobilization

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How do food movements prioritize and work to accomplish their varied and often conflicting social change goals at the city scale? Our study investigates the Denver food movement with a mixed methods social network analysis to understand how organizations navigate differences in power and influence vis-à-vis resource exchange. We refer to this uneven process with the analytical concept of “collaborative concession”. The strategic resource mobilization of money, land, and labor operates through certain collaborative niches, which constitute the priorities of the movement. Among these are poverty alleviation and local food production, which are facilitated by powerful development, education, and health organizations. Therefore, food movement networks do not offer organizations equal opportunity to carry out their priorities. Concession suggests that organizations need to lose something to gain something. Paradoxically, collaboration can produce a resource gain. Our findings provide new insights into the uneven process by which food movement organizations—and city-wide food movements overall—mobilize.

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“…Development organizations, for example, often offered land, funding, and other key resources to help start and expand organizations. We also found that development organizations could undermine local food production by contributing to the gentrification of low-income neighborhoods with appeals to the middle-class tastes of ‘green’ living with urban gardens (Sbicca, 2019). The resources offered by development organizations as key network brokers, in the capacity of occupying a development niche within the collaboration network, both provided opportunities for some organizations to achieve their missions, and hindered others.…”

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Mapping movements: a call for qualitative social network analysis

Luxton

Sbicca

2020

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Social network analysis (SNA) is an interdisciplinary method that takes as its starting point the premise that social life is created primarily and most importantly by relations and the patterns formed by these relations. While SNA is often associated with the quantitative analysis of network measures, we illustrate through our overall mapping of, and interpretation of the relations within the Denver food movement, the advantages of a qualitative approach. We bring together information from surveys, network diagrams, betweenness centrality measures, and interviews to offer an interpretive process that reveals both the structure and activist- and organization-level meanings to explain resource mobilization and collaboration. We propose that qualitative SNA allows researchers to (a) understand the context and content of network structures and (b) better interpret quantitative measures with additional qualitative data. Based on our findings, we additionally suggest that for social movement scholars, qualitative SNA offers a deeper understanding of how organizations collaborate to advance organizational and movement goals.

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Urban Agriculture, Revalorization, and Green Gentrification in Denver, Colorado

Cited by 47 publications

References 31 publications

How Will We Eat and Produce in the Cities of the Future? From Edible Insects to Vertical Farming—A Study on the Perception and Acceptability of New Approaches

How Will We Eat and Produce in the Cities of the Future? From Edible Insects to Vertical Farming—A Study on the Perception and Acceptability of New Approaches

Collaborative Concession in Food Movement Networks: The Uneven Relations of Resource Mobilization

Mapping movements: a call for qualitative social network analysis

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