Enhancing availability at the household and community levels through home gardening and urban agriculture is an important strategy. Food production within the cities include small land farming in households, local community gardens, indoor and rooftop gardens, vertical farming,etc. Home gardening can ...
In addition, the availability of plots has been limited by the pandemic price spike. Increased interest in purchasing an allotment can be read as an appreciation of the recreational function of AGs in the absence of access to metropolitan green infrastructure. RQ4—The impact of the pandemic on...
concerns”, defined as perception of the probability that food security will be a significant risk in the future; and (b) “food security concerns during the COVID-19 crisis”, defined as the level of worry regarding the availability of fresh fruit and vegetables during the COVID-19 crisis....
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of cancer survivors participating in the home-based, vegetable gardening study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical function at baseline was relatively high, with six out of eight questions averaging between four (able to do with little difficulty) and five (ab...
Urban gardening dates back to the beginning of the urban living [1], and urban food production is currently experiencing a renaissance and becoming a global trend [29]. In the context of climate change, the impacts on food availability and nutritional quality will increase the number of people...
Many people have switched to gardening as their new hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Filipinos. With its increasing popularity, Filipinos called the new hobbyists “plantitas” and “plantitos” instead of the old-fashioned term “plant people”. Among different plants, succulents are...