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Urban gardening and neglected and underutilized species in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2020 Background Urban agriculture has been evidenced as a food production and environmental sustainability strategy, although it faces many obstacles in Latin American countries.
da Cunha MA +4 more
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Direct and indirect effects of urban gardening on aboveground and belowground diversity influencing soil multifunctionality. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Urban gardens are popular green spaces that have the potential to provide essential ecosystem services, support human well-being, and at the same time foster biodiversity in cities.
Tresch S +6 more
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npj Urban SustainabilityThe COVID-19 pandemic showed us that maintaining and increasing individual and community resilience is essential, particularly in cities. Access to urban green spaces such as parks and gardens supports resilience and well-being.
Laura S. Tuominen +5 more
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Psychosocial outcomes as motivations for urban gardening: A cross-cultural comparison of Swiss and Chilean gardeners [PDF]
, 2020 The range of benefits provided by urban greenspaces is reasonably well understood and a broad consensus has been reached that they provide habitats along with social ecosystem services, such as restoration, health and food.
Home, Robert, Vieli, Lorena
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Tomato Urban Gardening Supported by an IoT-Based System: A Latin American Experience Report on Technology Adoption [PDF]
SensorsWhen urban agriculture is addressed at a family scale, known as urban gardening, it is assumed as a non-commercial activity where some family members voluntarily take care of the plantation during their free time.
Manuel J. Ibarra-Cabrera +5 more
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Frontiers 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
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Agronomy, 2023 Glomalin, a glycoprotein secreted by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMFs), exhibits multiple beneficial functions in regard to plant growth. However, the roles and regulatory mechanisms of exogenous easily extractable glomalin-related soil protein (EE ...
Xiao-Long Wu +4 more
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Agriculture, 2023 Climate change is impacting the ecological, social and technological aspects of urban gardens. Gardens experience threats (e.g., water scarcity) but are also responding through adaptation strategies (e.g., selecting drought-resilient plants). A synthetic
Francisco Tomatis +3 more
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Plants, 2023 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have the function of promoting water absorption for the host plant, whereas the role of easily extractable glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), an N-linked glycoprotein secreted by AMF hyphae and spores, is unexplored ...
Xiao-Niu Guo +4 more
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Review and Analysis of the Motivations Associated with Urban Gardening in the Pandemic Period
Sustainability, 2023 This paper examines people’s motives for urban gardening during the pandemic waves of 2020 and 2021. Interest in this practice has often ebbed and flowed in response to changing socioeconomic conditions and depended on positive effects in terms of social
Valentina Cattivelli
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