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Hama-cha Fieldwork: Co-Creating Cultural Sustainability in Urban Agriculture
浜茶フィールドワーク：都市農業における文化的持続可能性をともに編む By He Yukun, Kiyoyama Yohei, Mr. Ishida (local tea farmer), He Yuzhong 著者：何 鈺昆／清山 陽平／浜茶コラボレーター Read the full Field Notes report on our Resources Page and pdf linked here Based on research conducted 2024–2025 フィールドノーツ（活動記録）全文はリソースページからご覧ください → ここ 本稿は 2024–2025 年の調査に基づくフィールドノートです Rethinking Engagement in Urban Agriculture 都市農業への“関わり方”を再考する Urban agriculture often faces challenges of aging labor,
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Shaping the Future of Urban Agriculture in Stockholm
Authors: Michael Martin, Mosen Farhangi, Vivek Voora, and Natalie de Brun Skantz (IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute) As cities around the world face increasing pressures from climate change, population growth, and food insecurity, urban agriculture is emerging as a promising solution. In Stockholm, interest in growing food locally is on the rise — from schoolyards
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Can urban agriculture live up to its inclusivity aspirations?
Authors: Stijn van den Oever, Beste Sabir Onat, Adam Calo *An introduction from Stijn: Over the past year and a half, I had the opportunity to work for the JUST GROW project at the Radboud University, first as a research assistant, and later as an intern. It has been an incredibly enriching experience. I’ve learned
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Visiting GrünFrau — an urban farm supporting women and community
Written by Rose Jennings; Edited by Ann-Kristin, Jörg Lüling and Patrick Baur So much more than soup! Care to venture a guess on who procured this pot of gold? No, it wasn’t the researchers that cut the “schnibble” (vegetable bits) and that laughed around the fire as we put it all into a cast-iron pot.
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Notes from a Practitioner
By Nessa Richman March 2025 Seven years ago, when I became the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Food Policy Council, my first priority was to develop relationships with the 25 Council members. Each one brought a personal perspective from their experience with the food system. Every day, I worked with these skilled and diverse
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Urban Farms as Third Teachers: Learning and Sustainability at Voll Gård
Authors: Beste Sabir Onat, Adam J. Calo, Stijn van den Oever, Heidi Vinge Despite rapid urbanization and the high commercial value of city-center spaces, Voll Gård in Trondheim, Norway, a pedagogical farm and competence center for urban agriculture, stands as a testament to the power of urban agriculture. Supported by policymakers and the government, this
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Is there a connection between mobility and land access in urban farming?
Authors: Stijn van den Oever, Adam Calo, Heidi Vinge, Beste Sabir Onat The JUST GROW team based in Norway and the Netherlands is investigating how urban agriculture is mediated by land access and labour equity. During the summer period the pace of our research has slightly slowed down, but now that everyone is back (and
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Committed to a sustainable and fair food system: First insights from interviews with initiatives in Dortmund
Authors: Ann-Kristin Steines, Annika Eisenberg, Barbara Schröter The JUST GROW hub in Dortmund, Germany is researching how urban agriculture can contribute to food security. Over the past few months, we have been conducting interviews with different actors involved in urban agriculture in Dortmund and the surrounding area. We would like to give you an insight
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From Uji’s Tea Gardens to Workshops in Helsinki
Authors: He Yukun, Kiyoyama Yohei The JUST GROW hub at Kyoto University, Japan is currently researching the cultural sustainability dimensions of urban agriculture and we’ve been busy! This June, we focused on the Keihanshin region where we conducted a field visit to the urban tea gardens in Uji City, Kyoto prefecture. Following this, we traveled
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