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SHERPA Discussion Paper - Social dimension of rural areas
The SHERPA process will support the gathering of evidence from across Europe, at multiple levels, mainly regarding four sub-topics related to social relationships and their roles in: i) improving rural population well-being; ii) bridging rural-urban gap; iii) provisioning public goods; and iv) favouring social inclusion (migrants). This SHERPA Discussion Paper provides a synthesis of international and EU policy aims and findings from research as identified in recent research projects.
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Do rural development programmes promote gender equality on farms? The case of Slovenia
In: Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography, Band 22, Heft 5, S. 670-684
ISSN: 1360-0524
Book Reviews : JORGEN MARREE AND PETER P. GROENEWEGEN Back to Bismarck: Eastern European Health Care System in Transition Avebury, Aldershot, 1997, v-xi + 126 pp., £32.50 (hbk), ISBN 1 85972 617 8
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 264-266
ISSN: 1461-7269
The economic performance of urban gardening in three European cities – examples from Ljubljana, Milan and London
Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the contribution to home economics are rare, especially in Europe. While urban gardening plays an important role in the Global South, its role in Western Europe for food productivity and home economics is currently under-researched. The aim of this study is to analyse European urban gardeners' economic performance and self-sufficiency on a household level, as well as to reach a better understanding of their contribution to food self-provision and food security in the metropolitan areas. In a study carried out in 2014 with on-site personal and with online questionnaires participated 180 urban gardeners from three case study cities (Ljubljana, Milan, and London). Results from the economic analysis showed that although for most urban gardeners, profit is not their main motivation, the economic calculation shows that productivity in small urban plots can be comparable to market garden production. Urban gardeners are saving money, especially when, compared to retail prices for regular produce or organic produce, their input is included in the gross margin calculation. We conclude that, in the case-study cities, the self-provisional potential of urban gardeners' households to adequately cover the annual vegetable need of five-a-day servings can be met under three conditions: (1) sufficient garden size; (2) increased area productivity, and (3) sufficient labour-hour inputs. ; Acknowledgement This work has been carried out within the framework of the international project called 'Food Planning and Innovation for Sustainable Metropolitan Regions' (FOODMETRES), 7th Framework Project funded by the European Commission.
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Koper: Beyond the Rural and Urban Paradigm
In: Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe, S. 275-306