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2. A conversation about food systems change in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Malan, Naudé (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-14
- Published:
- International: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12053
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10, No. 1 2020
- Notes:
- 14 Pages, iZindaba Zokudla (IZ) is a multistakeholder engagement project that aims to create opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system in Johannesburg. IZ implements the Farmers’ Lab, a social lab used as a transitional mechanism in a larger transition to sustainability. To move the South African urban food system to an ecologically sound, economically productive, and socially equitable system, significant stakeholder integration is needed, and the iZindaba Zokudla Farmers’ Lab provides that. This reflective essay presents a history of the project (2013 until now) detailing the project’s creation of an ecosystem based on social labs that facilitate innovation in the food system. Emergent entrepreneurs and others use the social labs and their activities, as well as stakeholder engagement in their enterprise development, and these Labs have created opportunities for applied and other research in the university. This has brought innovation and change to agroecological practice in Johannesburg. This reflective essay article situates IZ within the broader evolutionary change in South Africa and considers how conversations about food lead to the creation of sustainable food systems.
3. Adapting forestry to urban demands — role of communication in urban forestry in Europe
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Konijnendijk, Cecil C. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000-12
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D11485
- Journal Title:
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(2-3): 89-90
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal., Similar to other parts of the world, European society is becoming increasingly urban, both in a physical as in an economic and socio-cultural sense. As a result, the relationships between society and nature, including forests, are changing, and forestry as structural intervention in forest ecosystems has had to adapt itself to changing societal pressures and demands. The planning and managing of woodlands in and near urban areas has been the most directly affected by the urbanisation process. Many European countries have a long tradition of ‘town forestry’, serving as basis for current developments in urban forestry, i.e. the planning and management of all forest and tree resources in and near urban areas for the benefit of local society. Through the adaptation to the specific demands of local urban societies, a type of forestry has emerged which is structurally different from classic forestry. It focuses, for example, on the social and environmental values of urban woodlands rather than on wood production and emphasising the importance of communication — ranging from information to participation/power sharing — between stakeholders. This paper investigates ways to communicate urban forests and forestry to urban inhabitants and other stakeholders, based on results of a comparative study of main European cities. It explores the role which urban forestry has been playing in the development of forestry at large, especially with regards to better incorporating changing social values and interests.
4. Added value? denaturalizing the "good" of urban greening
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Angelo, Hillary (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12264
- Journal Title:
- GEOGRAPHY COMPASS
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 13, Iss. 8
- Notes:
- 14 pages, In recent years, “urban greening” has become a new keyword in urban policy and practice, used to describe a proliferation of urban quality of life and environmental sustainability initiatives including street trees, public parks, greenways, farmers' markets, green roofs, and LEED certification in design. The emerging critical literature on urban greening has highlighted important ways green's social and economic added value affects the political economy of contemporary greening and produces inequalities in access to real or perceived environmental goods. However, such research has only infrequently asked why and under what conditions naturalized understandings of green as “good” make it possible for such initiatives to add value in the first place. As a result, it offers only partial explanations of why green has the effects it has—for instance, increasing property values—and only very rarely questions the fundamental “good” of nature itself. I argue that integrating insights on green's naturalized social and economic value from a growing body of social-theoretical work across geography and the social sciences can complement political economic explanations for greening and provide new vantage points for critique.
5. Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume one: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roggema, Rob (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08784
- Notes:
- 549 pages.
6. Agriculture in an urbanizing society volume two: proceedings of the sixth AESOP conference on sustainable food planning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Roggema, Rob (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08821
- Notes:
- Pages 601-1274.
7. An analytic approach to support urban agriculture policies development: case study of Barcelona
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Zanasi, Cesare (author) and Di Fiore, Gianluca (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- Spain
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 106 Document Number: D10932
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Food System Dynamics
- Notes:
- 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.
8. Analysis of the consumer’s perception of urban food products from a soilless system in rooftop greenhouses: a case study from the Mediterranean area of Barcelona (Spain)
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ercilla-Montserrat, Mireia (author), Sanjuan-Delmás, David (author), Sanyé-Mengual, Esther (author), Calvet-Mir, Laura (author), Banderas, Karla (author), Rieradevall, Joan (author), and Gabarrell, Xavier (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09
- Published:
- Springer New York LLC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: D10839
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(3): 375–393
- Notes:
- 19 pages., via online journal., Soilless crops are commonly used in rooftop agriculture (RA) because they easily adapt to building constraints. However, acceptance of the produce derived from this system may be controversial. This paper evaluates consumers’ acceptance of food from RA in Mediterranean cities, focusing on the quality of the product, production system, and consumers’ motivations. We surveyed 238 respondents on the UAB university campus as potential consumers. The survey was distributed via an Internet-link that was provided along with a sample of tomatoes from RA. The results showed that most people approved the quality of RA products and perceived them to be local and fresh (94%). The respondents exhibited acceptance of soilless-produced tomatoes and considered them to be environmentally better than conventionally produced ones (69%). Cluster analysis revealed that consumers with high income levels and a university education had a better perception of the quality and proposed a higher price for RA products, but no difference was found regarding their environmental perception of this products. Moreover, people who possessed more information about the product also had a higher perception of the quality and production system (it was perceived to be environmentally friendly) and would pay more for them. The main concerns of consumers were related to food safety and the social impact of RA. Additional research is needed to improve the sustainability of RA, and the applied measures should be communicated to potential consumers to enhance their acceptance and success.
9. Assessing the educational needs of urban gardeners and farmers on the subject of soil contamination
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Raes, Ashley Marie (author), Presley, DeAnn Ricks (author), Hettiarachchi, Ganga M. (author), and Thien, Stephen J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06091
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 51(1) : 1FEA10
- Notes:
- 11 pages.
10. Attitudes towards vertical farming at home: a user study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jansen, Guido (author), Cila, Nazli (author), Kanis, Marije (author), and Slaats, Yanti (author)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05
- Published:
- USA: Association for Computing Machinery
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10858
- Notes:
- Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings Volume 07-12-May-2016, Pages 3091-3098. 34th annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016,, San Jose, California., Vertical farming is a promising new technology for increasing crop yields per square meter. However, little research has been done so far in people's perception of this technology. The aim of this project was to gain a better understanding of consumers' attitude on small scale vertical farming at home. This was achieved by developing a prototype that uses sensor and LED technology for growing food at home and deploying it in a user study. The prototype was built to give users a genuine feeling of what it would be like to use a small scale vertical farming system. The user study showed that the attitudes towards the system were mostly positive. However, a fully autonomous system is not desirable and there are concerns regarding food safety.