Conference paper, International European Forum, Innsbruck, Austria, February 5-9, 2018. Pages 271-283 in proceedings published in this journal., The increasing impact due to urban population’s food supply causes a series of negative externalities related to food production, transformation and transportation. FAO and other institutions are trying to integrate traditional models of food supply with alternative ones like Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA). Defining the drivers that motivate the participation in different types of UPA could be useful to plan more participated and effective UPA development policies. Barcelona (Spain) hosts a number of cases representing different declinations that UPA can assume. This work aims at describing the differences in terms of motivations to enter the various typologies of Urban Agriculture (UA) in Barcelona. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews to 4 groups of users representing 3 of the most widespread models of UA initiatives in Barcelona (Allotment Gardens, Community Gardens, Pla Buits.) The results showed that participation in UA is mainly motivated by relational aspects and knowledge exchange and differences exist among the various UA models. Political reasons are mostly influencing the Community Gardeners while Pla Buits users’ mains motivations are related to socialising and Allotment gardeners are mainly motivated by environmental aspects. Differences in the participants’ demographic characteristics also emerged. Better targeted public policies contents and communication strategies for UPA development can thus be derived by the results obtained; to this end, recommendations have been provided. Further research should broaden the range of case studies and the sample size, in order to provide a more effective and comprehensive tool for tailoring UPA developing strategies to different contexts.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02717
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Paper presented at the seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE): Social networks, social media and the economics of food, Montreal, Canada, May 29-30, 2014. 12 pages.
West, Gale E. (author) and Ouattara, Lassina (author)
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Paper
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2014-05
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Canada
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02721
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Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2014 AAEA/CAES joint annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, May 29-30, 2014. 22 pages.
Yu, Xi (author), Hailu, Getu (author), and Cao, Jessica (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2014-05
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Canada
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D02720
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Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2014 AAEA/EAAE/CAES joint symposium: Social networks, social media and the economics of food, Montreal, Canada, May 28-30, 2014. 30 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05789
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Paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section of the annual conference of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 1, 2015. 21 pages., "Consumers' perceptions of food safety and food safety concerns are not consistent with the major causes of foodborne illness."
Ruiz-Carpio, Miguel Rafael (author), Safai, Cyrus (author), Djobo, Arafat (author), Gaichuk, Ivan (author), and Safai, Nick M. (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2018
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10863
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Poster/paper published in proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference and exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2018, pages 1-15., Motivating, promoting interest in teaching engineering subjects is always a challenge for undergraduate engineering students especially for junior and lower level students. This approach also brought social awareness to members of the group, as well as tolerance and responsibility. It also emphasized to the students a tolerant and an open-minded world, now and forevermore. A group of multinational, multicultural undergraduate students at Salt Lake Community College, majoring in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer engineering are working on a project involving vertical farming, hydroponic watering, and making the plant growing process smart.
Food and its availability is of major concern in all nations, especially the underdeveloped communities. Students get exposed to different engineering disciplines, and learn how to work in a multicultural team and become socially responsible in an ever increasing connected world. Each student also becomes a teacher to other students at times discussing his specialty and field of engineering.
Vaiknoras, Kate (author), Larochelle,Catherine (author), Birol, Ekin (author), Asare-Marfo, Dorene (author), and Herrington, Caitlin (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2017-07-30
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Rwanda
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09237
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Research paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 1, 2017. 38 pages; only the abstract and conclusions section are printed for ACDC archiving.
