[HTML][HTML] Home gardens: a promising approach to enhance household food security and wellbeing

DH Galhena, R Freed, KM Maredia - Agriculture & food security, 2013 - Springer
With the global population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050, there is a continuous
need to increase food production and buffer stocks. In this scenario, countries around the …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting urban agriculture and its opportunities and challenges—a global review

CG Wadumestrige Dona, G Mohan, K Fukushi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multifunctionality of urban agriculture can support the resolve of many urban challenges.
Therefore, it is vital to understand the contribution of academic studies on urban agriculture …

[HTML][HTML] Why garden?–Attitudes and the perceived health benefits of home gardening

LS Chalmin-Pui, A Griffiths, J Roe, T Heaton… - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
Domestic (home) gardens provide opportunities for psychological and physical health
benefits, yet these environments have received less attention in terms of their therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative ethnobotany of khevsureti, samtskhe-javakheti, tusheti, svaneti, and racha-lechkhumi, republic of Georgia (sakartvelo), Caucasus

RW Bussmann, NY Paniagua Zambrana… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background The Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo in Georgian language) is part of
the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot, and human agricultural plant use dates bat at least 6000 …

Mapping public and private spaces of urban agriculture in Chicago through the analysis of high-resolution aerial images in Google Earth

JR Taylor, ST Lovell - Landscape and urban planning, 2012 - Elsevier
Although always a part of city life, urban agriculture has recently attracted increased
attention from diverse groups in the United States, which promote it as a strategy for …

Beyond food production: Ecosystem services provided by home gardens. A case study in Vall Fosca, Catalan Pyrenees, Northeastern Spain

L Calvet-Mir, E Gómez-Baggethun… - Ecological Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
Interest in ecosystem services provided by agroecosystems has grown over the last decades
with research focusing on the type of environmental, economic and social benefits delivered …

Resilience of traditional knowledge systems: The case of agricultural knowledge in home gardens of the Iberian Peninsula

V Reyes-García, L Aceituno-Mata, L Calvet-Mir… - Global Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
The resilience of a social–ecological system largely depends on its capacity to learn by
absorbing new information to cope with change. But, how resilient are traditional knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Enough to feed ourselves!—Food plants in Bulgarian rural home gardens

T Ivanova, Y Bosseva, M Chervenkov, D Dimitrova - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
The home garden is a unique human-nature interspace that accommodates a diverse
spectrum of plant species and provides multiple services to households. One of the most …

Gardening motivations of US plant purchasers during the COVID-19 pandemic

BK Behe, PT Huddleston… - Journal of …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
Plant purchases experienced a surge during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine of 2020.
Researchers used an online survey instrument completed by 1,211 US respondents to …

[HTML][HTML] Sociocultural and ecological factors influencing management of edible and non-edible plants: the case of Ixcatlán, Mexico

S Rangel-Landa, A Casas, E García-Frapolli… - Journal of ethnobiology …, 2017 - Springer
Background Identifying factors influencing plant management allows understanding how
processes of domestication operate. Uncertain availability of resources is a main motivation …