There are a lot of literature descriptions and analyses of the social and cultural services provided by urban open land such as parks, green spaces, and squares. However, urban farms and vegetable gardens and other food production land have not received much attention. This is both an impediment to the protection and development of urban farming activities, and underappreciated because of its negligible contribution to the overall food supply.
To fill a research gap related to urban food production land, Rositsa T. Ilieva, Ph.D., Policy Director, Urban Food Policy Institute, CUNY[1], Assistant Professor Nevin Cohen, School of Public Health and Health Policy Research[2], Urban Food Maggie Israel, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, research assistant, and scholars from various countries in the FEW-meter[3] project team jointly published an article in the academic journal Land[4], discussing how to measure the social and cultural benefits created by urban agriculture today .
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The 272 academic journals included in the review studied urban agriculture projects from 57 different countries | References [4]
For this article, the research team systematically reviewed 272 peer-reviewed publications and drew on urban agriculture research from 57 different countries. The results show a growing number of research projects exploring the social impact of urban gardens and farms, with most of these studies focusing on measuring the impact of urban agricultural land on community cohesion and engagement .
The second is to measure how such agricultural land can increase the urban supply of fruits and vegetables and the consumption of residents, thereby ensuring food security and promoting public health. However, fewer studies have assessed the impact of urban agriculture on educational and economic outcomes. The authors of the paper emphasize that quantitative research on the many ways in which urban agriculture can provide benefits to people is critical, enabling urban planners and other sectors to justify future investments in urban agricultural land.
Number of academic papers published between 2009-2019 focused on measuring the social and cultural benefits of at least one urban food production space | Reference [4]
“Urban agriculture has been an integral part of cities for centuries, but we are only now beginning to realize and acknowledge that it deserves our attention and cultivation through integrated planning and investment as an important urban system.” Dr Ilieva commented, “To better support mayors and empower city officials and other departments to plan and invest in maintaining existing urban agricultural land and infrastructure, cities must learn how to quantify and present the benefits urban agriculture provides to local communities. Numerous social and cultural benefits, not just food production.”
Percentage of four urban agriculture benefit themes in 272 articles: community cohesion and engagement (34%), health and well-being (27%), economic and workforce development (20%), education (19%) | Reference [4]
references
[1]CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. (2019). CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://ift.tt/XQGYyUH
[2]CUNY SPH. (2022). CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://sph.cuny.edu/
[3] FEW-Meter. (nd). Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://ift.tt/qrx5dam
[4] Ilieva, RT, Cohen, N., Israel, M., Specht, K., Fox-Kämper, R., Fargue-Lelièvre, A., Poniży, L., Schoen, V., Caputo, S. , Kirby, CK, Goldstein, B., Newell, JP, & Blythe, C. (2022). The Socio-Cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture: A Review of the Literature. Land, 11(5), 622. https:/ /ift.tt/SkOXq01
[5] https://ift.tt/zt8MUOq
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research team
Rositsa T. Ilieva, First and Corresponding Author : Ph.D., Director of Food Policy Oversight, Urban Food Policy Institute, CUNY
Second author Nevin Cohe: Ph.D., Research Director, Urban Food Policy Institute, CUNY; Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy Research
Additional co-authors Maggie Israel, Kathrin Specht, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Agnès Fargue-Lelièvre, Lidia Poniży, Victoria Schoen, Silvio Caputo, Caitlin K. Kirby, Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua P. Newell, Chris Blythe
Paper information
Publish the journal Land
Posted on April 23, 2022
Thesis titleThe Socio-Cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture: A Review of the Literature
(DOI: https://ift.tt/SkOXq01)
Article AreasUrban Agriculture, Social and Cultural Services; Urban Planning
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