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    4. Commercial urban agriculture in Florida: a qualitative needs assessment

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Campbell, Catherine G. (author), DeLong, Alia N. (author), and Diaz, John M. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022-12-19
    Published:
    England: Cambridge University Press
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12833
    Journal Title:
    Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems
    Journal Title Details:
    Online
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    8pgs, The global trend of urbanization coupled with an increasing awareness of the importance of food systems resilience, has led to an increasing interest in urban agriculture to sustainably feed the rapidly growing urban population and mitigate against food supply chain disruptions. While home and community gardens have been long studied, there has been relatively little empirical research focused specifically on commercial urban agriculture (CUA) operations. The purpose of this study was to characterize commercial urban farms, and to identify their primary barriers to business development and expansion, their perceptions of future opportunities, and their specific informational needs. Because CUA has received relatively less attention in previous empirical research, a qualitative approach was used for this needs assessment to collect rich, contextualized information to help differentiate the specific barriers, opportunities and needs of CUA operations as opposed to their rural counterparts. We conducted semi-structured interviews (n = 29) of CUA producers in Florida. These interviews revealed that CUA operations face many of the same barriers that are common to establishing and growing small farms, with additional barriers due to local government regulations and tensions associated with farming on land that is not traditionally used for agriculture. Despite these difficulties, CUA operators believe their urban location is a key benefit to their operation and they see a variety of opportunities for future business and market expansion.

    5. Stakeholders' mental models of soil food value chain in the Everglades

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Friedrichsen, Claire N. (author), Daroub, Samira H. (author), Monroe, Martha C. (author), Stepp, John R. (author), and Gerber, Stefan (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10497
    Journal Title:
    Geoderma
    Journal Title Details:
    343: 166-175
    Notes:
    10 pages., via online journal., Peri-urban environments, where agriculture and urbanization interact, pose unique challenges for soil management. In Miami-Dade County, Florida USA, this interaction is especially important; a population of 2.7 million lives in an urban county with only 6% of the area zoned agriculture. Miami-Dade County is a major producer of tropical fruit and winter vegetables for the U.S., and is located within the Everglades ecosystem. Relatively little information is known about research and extension within peri-urban environments concerning soil health and management. Ethnopedological work has contributed to ethno-scientific knowledge by bridging the communication gap between scientists and locals concerning soil taxonomies, soil health, and soil fertility management. This study explores mental models of farmers and experts, examining the communication gap concerning soil health and food security. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from farmers (n = 19) and experts (n = 13). All stakeholders perceived pressures from urbanization as the main barrier to farmers' ability to continue to produce food, maintain their soil health, and contribute to national food security. The mental models of farmers reveal their ability to continue farming depends on their ability to construct and sustain a system—the soil food value chain. In this system, the farmer generates farm capital from a combination of high quality products, lower quality produce, and culls. This farm capital includes value-added products or soil amendments. However, experts did not perceive their responsibility to include maintaining a system, rather, only improving production. Experts' research and extension focused on improving product quality, increasing yield, decreasing cost of production, and minimizing the environmental impact of production. The mental models of farmers suggest research and extension related to building and maintaining the entire soil food value chain would increase the likelihood the farmers would better care for their soil and be profitable. This research contributes to the literature by recognizing the importance of examining the barriers to soil communication between stakeholders, as well as the importance to include examining soil within the larger food system.

    8. Rural-urban change, boundary problems and environmental burdens

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    McGranahan, Gordon (author), Satterthwaite, David (author), and Tacoli, Cecilia (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06725
    Notes:
    Online via International Institute for Environment and Development. 25 pages.

    9. Build a people-oriented urbanization: China’s new-type urbanization dream and Anhui model

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Mingxing Chen (author), Yinghua Gong (author), Dadao Lu (author), and Chao Ye (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-01-01
    Published:
    USA: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10149
    Journal Title:
    Land Use Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    80:1-9
    Notes:
    9 pages., via online journal, Since 2014, the Chinese government has initiated new-type urbanization under the guidance of ‘the National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)’, which embarks on a significant transformation of the model of urbanization in post-reform China. To understand the origin and outputs of this policy, this article demonstrates the context of China’s new-type urbanization. The paper proposes a conceptual framework of new-type urbanization, which mainly includes four aspects: humanism, people-oriented urbanization; inclusivism, benefits sharing for urban and rural; sustainability, development without sacrifice of resources and environment; and harmonism, coordination. This is followed by an examination of the case of Anhui province, as a pilot province of China’s new-type urbanization. Anhui has performed a lot of related work to promote citizenization of peasant workers and has made great progress on the reform of the household registration system. The study found that despite a special emphasis on people-oriented urbanization, the pressures and costs of citizenization of peasant workers are growing fast, accompanied by rising housing prices in cities. This insight suggests there are benefits and costs of promoting China’s new-type urbanization. Despite the advantages of institutional innovation, the unexpected side effects such as rapid rising housing prices actually undermine the success of plan implementation.

    10. Whither the love of hunting? Explaining the decline of a major form of rural recreation as a consequence of the rise of virtual entertainment and urbanism

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Robison, Kristopher K. (author) and Ridenour, Daniel (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: D11406
    Journal Title:
    Human Dimensions of Wildlife
    Journal Title Details:
    17 : 418-436
    Notes:
    19 pages., Researchers examined trends in hunting as a rural form of recreation in Illinois. Also, they tested the Videophilia hypothesis as one explanation of reduction in hunting. They found evidence that increased use of certain kinds of electronic indoor entertainment and growth of urban living helped explain the decline.