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作者

Guillermo Palau-Salvador;Ana de Luis;Javier Juan Pérez;Carles Sanchis-Ibor

来源

CITIES,Vol.92,Issue1,Pages 292-302

语言

英文

关键字

Urban agriculture;Community gardens;Food sovereignty;Collectivity;Urban greening;Entrepreneurship

作者单位

Departamento de Ingeniería Rural y Agroalimentaria, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, (Spain);Centro Valenciano de Estudios del Riego, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, (Spain);Departamento de Ciencias Experimentales y Matemáticas, Facultad de Veterinaria y Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad Católica de Valencia, C/Guillem de Castro 94, 46003 València, (Spain);Departamento de Ingeniería Rural y Agroalimentaria, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, (Spain);Centro Valenciano de Estudios del Riego, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, (Spain);Departamento de Ciencias Experimentales y Matemáticas, Facultad de Veterinaria y Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad Católica de Valencia, C/Guillem de Castro 94, 46003 València, (Spain)

摘要

Unlike other Western European countries, community gardens have appeared very recently in Spain, and they have rapidly increased during the last decade. Community gardens have adopted different forms –rental, municipal and associative– with contrasted managerial practices. This paper analyzes collectivity of community gardens in València (Spain), including private initiatives, through semi-structured interviews conducted in different gardens of the València Metropolitan Area. Results show how the financial crisis has acted as a catalyst for urban greening latent demands, causing the expansion of community gardens. Despite the different structure, practices and rules of private and public gardens, all of them share aims and actions related to urban greening, food sovereignty, organic farming and community building, and show similar benefits to those observed in other countries. Moreover, the rental gardens allow farmers to expand their services and to engage directly with consumers.