Urban foraging: Land management policy, perspectives, and potential.

ABSTRACT: Gathering of uncultivated food from green spaces, also known as foraging, is observed in urban areas across the world, but the literature focuses predominantly on the global north. Our study examines the existing urban land management structure and its approach to urban foraging in the eastern coastal region of South Africa. Through interviews with municipal officials in nine cities, we identified different stakeholders and their roles in urban green space management. We then used network analysis to represent interactions and influence of these stakeholders, and environmental worldviews to determine organisational and perceptual barriers to and enablers of foraging in urban green spaces. The policy on urban green space management, as well as land managers themselves are amenable to the co

SUBMITTER: Sardeshpande M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7138303 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature