- Title
- Temporal dynamics and motivations for urban community food gardens in medium-sized towns of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Roberts, Sky, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179768
- Identifier
- vital:43178
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.3390/land7040146"
- Description
- Urban agriculture is said to be increasing with global urbanization. However, there is little examination of the temporal or spatial dynamics of urban agriculture. We investigated the benefits and challenges experienced by community gardeners in four towns in South Africa, along with GIS analysis of the number, area, and location of urban food community gardens over the last three decades. Common reasons for practicing community gardening were cash poverty (37%) and the need to grow food (34%). The most common benefits reported by respondents were a healthy lifestyle (58%) and consumption of the food produced (54%). Theft of garden infrastructure or produce was a noteworthy challenge to continued motivation and engagement in urban community gardening. There were declines in the number and area of urban community gardens, and more central location over the last three decades. Only 16% of the gardens present in the 1980s were still operating in the 2000s. Clearly community gardening is temporally and spatially dynamic, which requires context-sensitive policy initiatives.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (12 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Land, Roberts, S. and Shackleton, C., 2018. Temporal dynamics and motivations for urban community food gardens in medium-sized towns of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Land, 7(4), p.146, Land volume 7 number 4 p. 146 2018 2073-445X
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- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the MDPI Open Access Statement (https://www.int-res.com/journals/terms-of-use/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 02. Zero Hunger
SDG 01. No Poverty
RU Department of Environmental Science
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 15. Life On Land
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