La agricultura urbana, un camino para enfrentar nuevos retos
Based on the definition of Urban Agriculture (hereinafter, UA) given by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 1999), this research study aims to understand the functions that, in addition to the productive one, the UA plays or can play in the cities, in general, and in th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Valladolid |
| Repositorio: | UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/71563 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.35376/10324/71563 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/71563 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Agricultura urbana Urban allotments Huertos urbanos School gardens Huertos escolares Community gardens Huertos comunitarios Individual allotments Huertos individuales 31 Ciencias Agrarias |
| Sumario: | Based on the definition of Urban Agriculture (hereinafter, UA) given by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 1999), this research study aims to understand the functions that, in addition to the productive one, the UA plays or can play in the cities, in general, and in those of Castilla y León, in particular, analysing its benefits, its limiting factors and those that enhance its development. In the same way, it tries to explain how UA can contribute to face the challenges that cities face. For this, throughout the four years in which the research tasks have been carried out (from January 2020 to January 2024), four functions that the UA can develop are studied and that have been confirmed in the exchange of information carried out on successful practices in UA (Good Practices), following the Focus Group method, within the framework of the European project Interreg Europe CityZen: educational function (with the appearance of school gardens); social function (healthy and safe leisure, fight against poverty and support for integration and social cohesion); productive function (availability of nearby and healthy foods) and the recovery of agricultural land in cities. The research methods used are diverse: bibliography; Focus Group method, already mentioned; semi-structured surveys, sent through Jotform, to the managers of municipal UA initiatives in the provincial capitals and to schools in Castilla y Léon; visits to three municipal initiatives and to school gardens of three educational centers; case study of the city of Palencia and agricultural data geographic information system AGROGIS to calculate and predict the potential AU (MAPA, 2021). The case study of the city of Palencia includes: interviews with the managers of the UA experiences in Palencia and visits to the allotments; analysis of the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI) 2014-2020 of Palencia; FOESSA Caritas report; interview Palencia City Council, Red Cross and Cáritas; Agrarian GIS (MAPA, 2021) and the Valladolid City Council Food Strategy document (Alimenta Valladolid). It is concluded, through the total or partial validation of the proposed hypotheses, that the AU, although still incipient, performs and can perform, in addition to the traditionally productive function, other educational, social, environmental and agricultural land recovery. The circumstances experienced in the course of this research, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced confinement and social distancing since March 2020, and the war in Ukraine, which broke out in 2022 and led to an upward escalation in prices, have served to reinforce the conclusions derived from the study. |
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