Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Urban Farming in South African Low-Income Settlements: A Case Study in Durban
Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Urban Farming in South African Low-Income Settlements: A Case Study in Durban
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南非低收入住区可持续城市农业的挑战与机遇： 德班案例研究
DOI：
10.3390/su11205660
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发表时间：
2019-10-02
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3.9
通讯作者：
Loggia, Claudia
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作者：
Bisaga, Iwona;Parikh, Priti;Loggia, Claudia
不断扩大的城市中心吸引了越来越多的农村移民，包括小农，他们因大规模农业的兴起、土地的丧失和气候变化而寻找更好的机会。因此，由于城市没有跟上新移民的规划和基础设施发展，正在建造的自发和非正式住区的数量有所增加。因此，在土地保有权和获得服务问题普遍存在的非正规、无规划住区中，城市居民面临着不稳定的生活条件，获得食物的机会有限，而且缺水。这些居民采用城市农业战略来减轻贫困和粮食不安全，并被视为发挥其他功能，如环境、社会、文化和发展。本研究探讨了可持续城市农业的挑战和机遇，将其作为德班三个案例研究中的一项综合环境管理战略，以改善非正规住区。本文件表明，市政当局需要支持社区驱动的进程，以确保普遍获得服务举措的可持续性和对维护的持续投资。政策制定者需要为学术界、非政府组织和私营部门创造一个有利的环境，共同开发节水解决方案，以管理粮食和水的关系，并利用当地的社区结构和团体，如合作社和妇女团体。
Growing urban centres have been attracting ever higher numbers of rural migrants, including small-scale farmers, looking for better opportunities due to the rise of large-scale farming, loss of land and climate change. Consequently, there has been an increase in the number of spontaneous and informal settlements being constructed as cities do not keep up with the planning and infrastructure development for new arrivals. Urban dwellers in informal, unplanned settlements where issues of land tenure and access to services are prevalent have, consequently, been exposed to precarious living conditions with limited access to food and water scarcity. Urban agriculture (UA) strategies have been adopted by those residents to alleviate poverty and food insecurity, and have been seen to perform other functions, such as environmental, social, cultural and developmental. This study explores challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban farming as an integrated environmental management strategy for the upgrading of informal settlements in three case studies in Durban. This paper demonstrates the need for municipalities to support community driven processes to ensure sustainability of UA initiatives and sustained investment for maintenance. Policy makers need to create an enabling environment for academics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector to co-develop water efficient solutions to manage the food-water nexus and capitalise on localised community structures and groups, such as co-operatives and women groups.