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Gardening for Food and Community

Landscape Review, 2016
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Robin Tregenza
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of household economic indices on sustainability of community gardens

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2019
As a critical tool to foster sustainable urban environments and boost quality of life for its participants, community gardening has been used in diverse fields including urban planning, design, and regeneration projects.
Jooseok Oh, Seiyong Kim
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Home Gardening as a Panacea to Food Insecurity in Ogun State [PDF]

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development Studies
This study investigates the role of home gardening as an effective and sustainable strategy in mitigating food insecurity in communities in Ogun state. The study employed a mixed method research approach, which included 200 households across four LGA in ...
Patience Abosede Olunusi, Oyetunde Adeduntan Olajumoke Adedokun, Olusola Funmilayo Babalola, Faith Oluwatosin Onigbinde, Motunrayo Risikat Asunmo   +4 more
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Enhancing the Secretion Systems: Genetic Engineering of Super Bioagents for Effective Plant Disease Control

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
Genetic engineering (GE) overcomes BCA limits, enabling robust, scalable crop protection. “Super Bioagents” (SBs) use optimized SSs to enhance bioactive molecule delivery. Optimizing SSs enhance precise, sustainable effector deployment for stable disease suppression. SBs use microbiome‐informed design for scalable, next‐gen sustainable crop protection.
Michael Dare Asemoloye
wiley   +1 more source

Caretaking, accomplishment and connection to nature: The ‘gardening triad’ and its role in new community gardeners' engagement, and social and emotional well‐being

People and Nature
Understanding how activities in natural settings, such as gardening, improve health and well‐being is important for designing nature‐based health interventions.
K. Alaimo, E. Coringrato, Kristin Lacy, James R. Hébert, A. Beavers   +4 more
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard, Joshua I. Brian, Wayne Dawson, Petr Dostál, Franz Essl, Michal Gruntman, Tina Heger, Mark van Kleunen, Mialy Razanajatovo, Lena C. Reimann, Frank M. Schurr, Montserrat Vilà, Florencia A. Yannelli, Marina Golivets   +13 more
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Contending food sovereignty with cultivating kinship through community gardens

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
First paragraph: Gabriel R. Valle’s Gardening on the Margins underscores the importance of engaging in anthropological research through community building in a way that resonates with my entry into food systems research. In embedding himself in Santa
Max Sano
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No Buts About It...The Value of Urban Food Production: Response #4 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraphs: In their provocative essay, Alan Hallsworth and Alfred Wong (2013) contend that academics, activists, and policy makers exaggerate the benefits of urban food gardening.
Evan Weissman
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Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel, Stephanie Ligan, Alice Bischof, Edi Emilov Ivanov, Laura Martinez‐Izquierdo, Sara Noémie Plassnig, Marisa Pettit   +6 more
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