1. Differences in motivations and social impacts across urban agriculture types: Case studies in Europe and the US
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Kathrin Specht, Rositsa T. Ilieva, Chris Blythe, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Victoria Schoen, Lidia Poniży, Agnès Lelièvre, Silvio Caputo, Caitlin K. Kirby, Jason K. Hawes, Nevin Cohen, Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU), ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development), ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, University of Michigan System, City University of New York [New York] (CUNY), University of Kent [Canterbury], Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires (SADAPT), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM), Social Farms & Gardens, This paper is based on FEW-meter project, funded by ESRC, UK, grant number ES/S002170/2, by BMBF: Germany, grant number 01LF1801A, by ANR: France, grant number ANR-17-SUGI-0001-01, by NSF: USA, Belmont Forum 18929627, by NCN: Poland, grant no 2017/25/Z/HS4/03048, and by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (GA No 730254) under the JPI Urban Europe's call 'SUGI FWE Nexus'. The German-American Fulbright Commission also provided support for this project., and Elsevier
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Multivariate analysis ,[SDV.SA.AGRO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agronomy ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,01 natural sciences ,Multivariate analysis of variance ,Urban farms ,11. Sustainability ,General wellbeing ,Urban agriculture ,Socioeconomics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,2. Zero hunger ,Ecology ,Socialization ,1. No poverty ,Social benefits ,021107 urban & regional planning ,15. Life on land ,Health and wellbeing ,Urban Studies ,Geography ,Survey data collection ,Motivations ,Community gardens ,Allotment gardens - Abstract
International audience; Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular approach to addressing negative social and health effects of cities. Social benefits of urban agriculture include improved health and wellbeing, economic opportunities, social cohesion, and education. However, the extent to which urban agriculture participants are motivated by or experience these impacts has rarely been measured quantitatively, especially across the many different types of urban agriculture. We analyzed survey data from 74 urban agriculture sites in France, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States to quantitatively assess the relationships between urban agriculture types, farmers and gardeners' motivations, and the social impacts of urban agriculture. Through factor analysis, we established valid and reliable measurements of participants' motivations and impacts. We identified four scales: general wellbeing impacts, nutritional health impacts, economic interests, and socialization motivations. Through multivariate analysis of variance, we document significant differences in motivations and reported impacts across types of urban agriculture. Finally, we conducted a multilevel multivariate analysis to explore the predictors of general wellbeing impacts. Participants with stronger economic interests, stronger socialization motivations, and who are owners or primary operators of their plots would be predicted to report greater general wellbeing impacts of urban agriculture. These results provide data about the impacts of urban agriculture projects that enable urban planners and policymakers to maximize the desired social benefits of urban agriculture.
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- 2021