Local food-growing initiatives respond to the Covid-19 crisis: enhancing well-being, building community for better futures

当地粮食种植举措应对 Covid-19 危机：增进福祉，建设社区，创造更美好的未来

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V015109/1
负责人：
Les Levidow
金额：
$ 8.21万
依托单位：
The Open University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV015109%2F1
关键词：
Local food growing initiatives respond

项目摘要

The Covid-19 crisis has revealed the stark inequalities in UK society. Many vulnerable people havehad more difficulty accessing food, so third-sector organisations have mobilised emergency foodprovision. They have also expanded community food-growing initiatives, which enhanceparticipants' well-being, strengthen social cohesion, localise food provision and thus build futureresilience. This project will investigate the expansion of community cultivation during the Covid-19 crisis, its benefits, social barriers and means to overcome them, especially for more vulnerablemarginalised social groups, with the aim to strengthen third-sector capacities for such inclusion.Through participatory digital story-telling, this project will work with third-sector partners incommunity cultivation to elicit participants' feelings, aspirations, social connections and multiplebenefits from community food activities. This knowledge will identify the most effective strategiesthat have been deployed during the Covid-19 crisis, and devise ways to share and promote them.Thus the digital story-telling process has a dual purpose: a research method and a means topromote better practices through our third-sector partners. As a practical impact, food growingactivities will strengthen their engagement with vulnerable marginalised people, thus helping toovercome inequalities. Based on the digital assets and research insights, the project will providean open-access online capacity-building programme for community food programmes, so thatthey can outscale similar benefits around the country. This impacts will promote better mentalhealth, well-being and better access to healthy food; they will also spread agri-food practices thatenhance social resilience, and thus provide an alternative to the unhealthy, unsustainable agrifoodsystem.

COVID-19危机揭示了英国社会中鲜明的不平等现象。许多脆弱的人在获得食物方面已经有更多困难，因此第三部门组织动员了紧急食品。他们还扩大了社区粮食发展计划，增强了团队的福祉，增强社会凝聚力，本地化食品提供，从而建立了未来性。该项目将调查在Covid-19危机期间社区培养的扩展，其优势，社会障碍和手段，尤其是对于更脆弱的社会群体而言，旨在增强这种包容性的第三部门能力。通过参与性的数字故事讲述，该项目将与第三群体党派培养的活动相处，从而使社区的参与者与社会的社交相结合。这些知识将确定在199危机期间部署了最有效的战略局部，并设计了分享和推广它们的方法。因此，数字故事讲述过程具有双重目的：一种研究方法和通过我们的第三部门伙伴更好地实践的方法。作为实际影响，食品生长活性将加强与弱势边缘化人群的交往，从而有助于不平等。基于数字资产和研究见解，该项目将为社区食品计划提供服务，以便他们在全国范围内获得类似的好处。这将促进更好的心理健康，福祉并更好地获得健康食品；他们还将传播具有社会韧性的农业食品实践，从而为不健康，不可持续的农业发展系统提供了替代方案。