Edible backyards: a qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security

By R. Kortright, S. Wakefield. 2011

326 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Katharina Sartison
2. Martina Artmann

In Plant Science

1. H. Renting
2. M. Schermer
3. Adanella Rossi

Citations in the corpus

• Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship (2012, background): “This strategy can be seen as a response to the Czech consumers’ turn towards quality (Murdoch and Miele, 2004), which essentially followed the patterns already known from Western Europe.”
• The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework (2018, background): “In general, studies suggest that urban gardening does not only increase the quantitative access to food but also food security in terms of quality by promoting a more nutritious diet irrespective of income level [56,57].”
• Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System (2019, background): “Most UPA social movements in the Global North since the 1970s, however, tend to be driven by highly individual lifestyle choices, including food sovereignty; access to superior or rare qualities in food for consumption; supplementary income, saving, and exchange; health; wellbeing and exercise; educ”
• Strawberry fields forever? Urban agriculture in developed countries: a review (2013, unknown): “Backyard food gardeners are motivated by different factors, with a study of 125 residents in two Toronto neighborhoods reporting motivations including cooking with fresh ingredients, teaching children about nature, environmental sustainability, connecting to cultural or past identity, aesthetics, pe”