Opportunities for growth: An Urban Agriculture Toolkit
2017
Link to the resource: https://sustainontario.com/custom/uploads/2017/02/SustainOntario_UrbanAgToolkit.pdf
- Format:
- Guide
- Target population:
- Local administrations and citizen associations
- Objetive:
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Provide criteria, recommendations, frameworks for action and real examples of urban agriculture projects.
- Methodology:
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This toolkit examines examples of successful policy changes in Ontario, Canada, to make urban agriculture more accessible to the population.
It describes the steps required to create communities that can actively participate in urban agricultural initiatives and provides considerations, areas of opportunity and a final checklist.
- Opportunities and limitations:
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The guide focuses on examples from Ontario (Canada) and therefore the cases may not be as relevant to other regions.
The recommendations can be very general and the final checklist is not very specific.
It can be useful as a conceptual framework and source of inspiration with real examples, but at the same time it does not go into detail of how to carry out specific actions.
- Indicators:
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Percentage of people who feel they belong in the neighbourhood/community. Number of local administrations/agents involved. Access to healthy, varied and affordable food. Level of population diversity.
- Thematic:
- Housing and neighbourhood communities Green infrastructure Equipment and services
- Link to health:
- Social
- Scale of the field of study:
- Housing / street / building / bounded public space Block - set of buildings or spaces
- Implementation phase:
- Diagnosis / pre-project Implementation
- Methodological approach:
- Observation Qualitative / Participatory Questionnaire
