Tag: sustainability
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A JUST GROW Team Update
By Rose Jennings, DrPH (Reviewed by members of the JUST GROW Consortium) It’s been a minute since we published a blog post. This is certainly not for lack of words to share. In fact it’s the very opposite – we’ve been writing busily in our corners of the world! I thought I’d take a moment…
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Visions of Equity in UA at the annual Rhode Island Food Systems Summit 2026
Author: Chelsea Blanchette with contributions from Sheriff Aliu, Patrick Buar, and Rose Jennings January 22, 2026 The annual Rhode Island (RI) Food Systems Summit took place this past week. Over 100 community members from keystone food and agriculture organizations gathered to share experiences from the past year and join forces to identify key strategies for…
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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 Koch, 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…
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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…
