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T1 La agricultura urbana, un camino para enfrentar nuevos retos
A1 Bartolomé Sualdea, Ana María
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Escuela de Doctorado
K1 Agricultura urbana
K1 Urban allotments
K1 Huertos urbanos
K1 School gardens
K1 Huertos escolares
K1 Community gardens
K1 Huertos comunitarios
K1 Individual allotments
K1 Huertos individuales
K1 31 Ciencias Agrarias
AB Based on the definition of Urban Agriculture (hereinafter, UA) given by the Foodand Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 1999), this research studyaims to understand the functions that, in addition to the productive one, the UA playsor can play in the cities, in general, and in those of Castilla y León, in particular, analysingits benefits, its limiting factors and those that enhance its development. In the sameway, 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 carriedout (from January 2020 to January 2024), four functions that the UA can develop arestudied and that have been confirmed in the exchange of information carried out onsuccessful practices in UA (Good Practices), following the Focus Group method, withinthe framework of the European project Interreg Europe CityZen: educational function(with the appearance of school gardens); social function (healthy and safe leisure, fightagainst 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 ofmunicipal UA initiatives in the provincial capitals and to schools in Castilla y Léon; visitsto three municipal initiatives and to school gardens of three educational centers; casestudy of the city of Palencia and agricultural data geographic information system AGROGISto calculate and predict the potential AU (MAPA, 2021).The case study of the city of Palencia includes: interviews with the managers ofthe UA experiences in Palencia and visits to the allotments; analysis of the IntegratedSustainable Urban Development Strategy (EDUSI) 2014-2020 of Palencia; FOESSACaritas report; interview Palencia City Council, Red Cross and Cáritas; Agrarian GIS(MAPA, 2021) and the Valladolid City Council Food Strategy document (AlimentaValladolid).It is concluded, through the total or partial validation of the proposedhypotheses, that the AU, although still incipient, performs and can perform, in additionto the traditionally productive function, other educational, social, environmental andagricultural land recovery.The circumstances experienced in the course of this research, such as theCOVID-19 pandemic, which forced confinement and social distancing since March2020, and the war in Ukraine, which broke out in 2022 and led to an upward escalationin prices, have served to reinforce the conclusions derived from the study.
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/71563
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/71563
LA spa
NO Escuela de Doctorado
DS UVaDOC
RD 27-nov-2024