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The economic performance of urban gardening in three European cities – examples from Ljubljana, Milan and London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the ...
Corsi, Stefano   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

A Bibliometric Analysis of Current Knowledge Structure and Research Progress Related to Urban Community Garden Systems

open access: yesLand, 2023
Community gardens offer broad research opportunities and analytical resources encompassing urban planning to environmental sustainability, food systems, and social capital.
Hua Zheng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community gardens as a response to the contradictions of sustainable urban policy: Insights from the Swiss cities of Zurich and Lausanne

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
In this paper we explore how policy discourses on urban sustainability impact the governing of urban food gardening in favoring community gardens. Our main hypothesis is that community gardens better accommodate the tensions created by the discourses of ...
Ingrid Jahrl   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wild Bee Conservation within Urban Gardens and Nurseries: Effects of Local and Landscape Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Across urban environments, vegetated habitats provide refuge for biodiversity. Gardens (designed for food crop production) and nurseries (designed for ornamental plant production) are both urban agricultural habitats characterized by high plant species ...
Cecala, Jacob M.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Follow the Tomato [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
IMPACT. 1: Students created infographics and produced five-minute videos to a community audience at Mount Carmel Community Health Resource Center. -- 2.
Kaiser, Michelle
core   +4 more sources

Beyond the human - Garden communities in community gardens

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2023
This paper contributes to the growing body of literature on ecosocial work that advocates for a refocus of the social work profession towards more-than-human environments and interconnectedness. One context in which the relationships between people and other-than-human beings become particularly concrete and tangible are community gardens.
openaire   +2 more sources

Designing a Community Garden

open access: yesidea journal, 2018
Politecnico di Milano Coltivando is a convivial garden where people meet, experiment, cultivate crops and share their skills and ideas. Coltivando uses innovative service and spatial design knowledge and community consultation processes. Coltivando is a design research project that is documented throughout its entire process.
FASSI, DAVIDE   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Planting Seeds of Change: Strategies for Engaging Asian Pacific Americans in Healthy Eating and Active Living Initiatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This 23-page report draws on results from an innovative technique called Photovoice involving 28 community members, community-level data of 308 surveys, as well as extensive input from key stakeholders.
Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza
core  

2023–2027 CAP First Pillar Reform and Livestock Sector: Production and Economic Impacts on Italian Specialized Dairy Cattle Farms

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study uses an agroeconomic supply model to assess the impacts of 2023–2027 CAP on Italian specialized dairy cattle farms. The model considers the voluntary choice of Eco‐Scheme 1, specifically addressed to livestock farms, through the implementation of binary variables.
Davide Dell'Unto, Raffaele Cortignani
wiley   +1 more source

Specificities of French community gardens as environmental stewardships

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Community-based efforts are essential to address urban social-ecological challenges. Here, we focus on French community gardens. Through participant observation and semistructured interviews, this study seeks to provide empirical evidence on: (1) what ...
Ana Cristina. Torres   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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