Community gardening : exploring motivations, benefits and gardener experience
Abstract
A food system is a set of interrelated functions that includes food production,
processing and distribution, food access and utilization by individuals, communities and
populations, and food recycling, composting, and disposal (Dahlberg, 1993; Cornell
University, n.d.; Community Food Security Coalition, 2009). Food systems are dynamic
and complex, and reflect unique social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors and
circumstance. For the better part of human history, most people ate food that was
produced and distributed within local food systems (Xuereb, 2005). However, in the last
several decades, there has been an increasing trend toward industrialization and
globalization, and the subsequent concentration of ownership and control of food systems
around the world (Koc & Dahlberg, 1999; Heffernan & Hendrickson, 2005; La Trobe &
Acott, 2000; FAO, 2004; Scrinis, 2007).
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