- Title
- Urban foraging: land management policy, perspectives, and potential
- Creator
- Sardeshpande, Mallika, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149384
- Identifier
- vital:38845
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1371/journal.pone.0230693
- Description
- Gathering of uncultivated food from green spaces, also known as foraging, is observed in urban areas across the world, but the literature focuses predominantly on the global north. Our study examines the existing urban land management structure and its approach to urban foraging in the eastern coastal region of South Africa. Through interviews with municipal officials in nine cities, we identified different stakeholders and their roles in urban green space management. We then used network analysis to represent interactions and influence of these stakeholders, and environmental worldviews to determine organisational and perceptual barriers to and enablers of foraging in urban green spaces. The policy on urban green space management, as well as land managers themselves are amenable to the concept of foraging in public spaces. Lack of knowledge on wild indigenous species and sustainable offtake, ambiguous, coarse, or lacking policy, and normative views of pristine nature may hinder foraging. We recommend pathways for policy and stakeholder partnerships to incorporate sustainable foraging in their biodiversity conservation and land stewardship strategies.
- Format
- 26 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Plos one, Sardeshpande, M. and Shackleton, C., 2020. Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential. Plos one, 15(4), p.e0230693., Plos one volume 15 number 5 p.e0230693. April 2020 1932-6203
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
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Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
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