Rurban Revolution: Can ruralising urban areas through greening and growing create a healthy, sustainable & resilient food system?

城市革命：通过绿化和种植将城市地区农村化能否创造一个健康、可持续的环境

• 批准号: BB/S01425X/1
• 负责人: Jessica Davies
• 金额: $ 82.45万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FS01425X%2F1
• 关键词: Rurban; Revolution; ruralising; urban; areas

Food is a growing challenge for us as a society.Food is damaging the nation's health with overconsumption and poor dietary choices leading to an epidemic of obesity and associated diseases such as diabetes in the UK and other countries. Part of the reason behind this obesity crisis is a crisis in mental health - stress drives poor eating habits. Another aspect is poor access to nutritious food - the UK has very high levels of food insecurity compared with other high income countries.At a global level, agriculture is a major cause of environmental harm and raises important questions about the sustainability and longevity of our current approach to food production and consumption. The need for land expansion to meet our growing food demands is causing widespread deforestation and soil degradation, and 30% of greenhouse gas emissions derive from agriculture, contributing to climate change with major knock-on effects for ecosystems and people. In addition to the challenges that increasing land use pressures and climate change are presenting to ensuring stable and adequate supply of good quality nutritious food into supply chains, the UK is facing further challenges as we prepare for Brexit. Potential changes to labour and farm payments throw a lot of uncertainty on the viability of domestic horticultural production, and uncertainty around trade agreements creates questions about the future supply of fruit and vegetables - 30% of which currently derive from the EU. This project will investigate the potential of a new idea - rurbanisation (rural-isation of urban areas) - as a holistic solution to these problems. Rurbanisation is a vision for radically increasing the amount of space we devote to greenery and food growing in cities. This idea could combat our food problems by:- helping to reconnect people with food and nature, reducing stress and increasing access to fruit and vegetables.- increasing urban food production, reducing the amount of food we need to grow outside cities, making space for nature inside and outside cities, and shortening supply chains, and- increasing domestic production and supply of fruit and vegetables that are key to the nation's health. In the past, food system shocks have created rapid rises in urban growing, and individuals and communities taking more responsibility for growing their own food e.g. Dig for Victory and Cuba post-Soviet Union collapse. Could we use rurbanisation as a pre-emptive measure for increasing food security?The idea of rurbanisation also poses many questions and problems. Community urban growing already exists and can be very beneficial for those involved. However, there are barriers such as land access, skills and time availability that hinder the expansion of these activities. How can we upscale this activity and are there business or regulation solutions for promoting this? How does urban food compare to conventional food in terms of nutritional value and safety?In this project we are bringing together expertise across nutrition and psychology, crop and food sciences, ecosystems and climate change and political and social sciences to build an evidence base on the potential of rurbanisation for transforming our food system in a sustainable and resilient way, so it can contribute to healther lifestyles. We give particular importance in exploring the barriers to rurbanisation and potential ways to overcome these. Through spatial data analyses, surveys, interviews and field and laboratory experiments we will explore how would rurbanisation influence: - Healthy and sustainable diets by improving availability, access and consumption of fruit and vegetables. - Food production in terms of quantity, quality and safety and the resilience of the UK food system. - Ecosystem service delivery inside and outside cities.And - How we could overcome the barriers to rurbanisation and maximise benefits.

作为一个社会，食物是一个日益严重的挑战。食物因过度消费和饮食不佳而损害美国的健康状况，导致肥胖症和相关疾病的流行，例如英国和其他国家的糖尿病。肥胖危机背后的部分原因是对心理健康的危机 - 压力驱动了饮食习惯不良。另一个方面是获得营养食品的不良机会 - 与其他高收入国家相比，英国的粮食不安全水平很高。在全球范围内，农业是造成环境危害的主要原因，并提出了有关我们当前食品生产和消费方法的可持续性和寿命的重要问题。满足我们不断增长的粮食需求的土地扩展的需求导致广泛的森林砍伐和土壤退化，而30％的温室气体排放源自农业，导致气候变化，对生态系统和人的重大敲门效应。除了面临着增加土地使用压力和气候变化的挑战外，还提出了确保稳定且充分供应优质的营养食品为供应链的供应，英国在我们准备英国脱欧时面临着进一步的挑战。劳动力和农场支付的潜在变化给国内园艺生产的可行性带来了很多不确定性，贸易协定的不确定性会引起有关未来水果和蔬菜供应的疑问，其中30％目前来自欧盟。该项目将调查一种新想法的潜力-Rurbanication（城市地区的农村化） - 作为这些问题的整体解决方案。 Rurbanication是一种从根本上增加我们投入的空间量的愿景，该空间用于城市中的绿色植物和食物。这个想法可以通过以下方式来解决我们的食物问题： - 帮助重新连接食物和自然的人，减轻压力并增加获​​得水果和蔬菜的机会。-增加城市粮食的生产，减少我们在城市外部和城市外部生长所需的食物量，为大自然提供空间，缩短供应链，并增加对国家健康的水果和蔬菜的供应和蔬菜，并增加了对国家健康的水果和蔬菜的供应。过去，食品系统的冲击在城市发展方面迅速增加，个人和社区承担了更多的责任，以种植自己的食物，例如挖掘胜利，古巴后苏联倒塌。我们可以将Rurbanation用作提高粮食安全的一种先发制人的措施吗？Rurbanation的想法也提出了许多问题和问题。社区城市成长已经存在，对参与人员可能非常有益。但是，诸如土地获取，技能和时间可用性之类的障碍阻碍了这些活动的扩展。我们如何提高这项活动，并且是否有业务或法规解决方案来促进这项活动？在营养价值和安全方面，城市食品与传统食品相比如何？在这个项目中，我们将营养和心理学，农作物和食品科学，生态系统以及气候变化以及政治和社会科学汇集在一起​​，以建立证据，以改造Rurbanation的潜力，以使我们的食品系统在可持续和富有启发性的生活中改善我们的食品体系，从而贡献自己的生命力，从而使自己的健康效果促进健康的生命力。我们在探索Rurbanation的障碍和克服这些方法的潜在方法方面特别重要。通过空间数据分析，调查，访谈，现场和实验室实验，我们将探讨Rurbanation将如何影响： - 通过改善水果和蔬菜的可用性，获取和消费，健康且可持续的饮食。 - 在数量，质量和安全性以及英国粮食系统的弹性方面的粮食生产。 - 城市内部和外部的生态系统服务交付。

项目成果

Potential of urban green spaces for supporting horticultural production: a national scale analysis

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4730
• 发表时间: 2021-12
• 期刊: Environmental Research Letters
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: L. Walsh;B. Mead;C. Hardman;D. Evans;Lingxuan Liu;N. Falagán;S. Kourmpetli;Jessica A. C. Davies

Food System Resilience: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges

• DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744
• 发表时间: 2022-09
• 期刊: Annual Review of Environment and Resources
• 影响因子: 16.4
• 作者: M. Zurek;John J. A. Ingram;A. Bellamy;C. Goold;Christopher Lyon;P. Alexander;A. Barnes;D. Bebber;T. Breeze;A. Bruce;Lisa M. Collins;Jessica A. C. Davies;Bob Doherty;J. Ensor;Sofia C. Franco;Andrea Gatto;T. Hess;C. Lamprinopoulou;Lingxuan Liu;M. Merkle;L. Norton;Tom Oliver;J. Ollerton;S. Potts;M. S. Reed;C. Sutcliffe;P. Withers

Is urban growing of fruit and vegetables associated with better diet quality and what mediates this relationship? Evidence from a cross-sectional survey.

城市种植水果和蔬菜是否与更好的饮食质量相关？是什么调节了这种关系？

• DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105218
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Appetite
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Mead BR

Scaling-up urban agriculture for a healthy, sustainable and resilient food system: the postharvest benefits, challenges and key research gaps

扩大城市农业以建立健康、可持续和有复原力的粮食系统：收获后的好处、挑战和关键研究差距

• DOI: 10.1504/ijpti.2022.121791
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Journal of Postharvest Technology and Innovation
• 作者: Kourmpetli S

Growing your own in times of crisis: the role of home food growing in perceived food insecurity and well-being during the early COVID-19 lockdown

• DOI: 10.35241/emeraldopenres.14186.2
• 发表时间: 2021-10-13
• 期刊: Emerald Open Research
• 作者: Mead BR;Davies JA;Falagán N;Kourmpetli S;Liu L;Hardman CA
• 通讯作者: Hardman CA