Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19
The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has highlighted the vulnerability of the agrifood system. The urgent need to supply fresh food has arisen everywhere. Lockdown slowed down the fresh vegetables supply in the long distance distribution chains. In addition, the total confinement occurred in many countri...
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| description | The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has highlighted the vulnerability of the agrifood system. The urgent need to supply fresh food has arisen everywhere. Lockdown slowed down the fresh vegetables supply in the long distance distribution chains. In addition, the total confinement occurred in many countries left the people not only distressed, but also in the need to divert daily spare time to a new home gardening vitalization. During the pandemic, sales in local and street markets declined dramatically, while most purchases became concentrated in supermarkets. This fact has increased the risk of crowdedness and thus contamination or regulated entrances in the supermarkets, or left communities in small towns with limited access to food supply due to the lack of big grocery stores. Gardening can increase opportunities for local and fresh food availability. Scaling-up local food production becomes important to increase resilience of communities. The pandemic may represent an important opportunity to enhance a new era of gardening with modern technology along with traditional systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f596886f77b408eb860bbe460abaa3d2022-12-21T22:42:38ZengAcademicPresBulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Horticulture1843-52541843-53942020-11-0177214114410.15835/buasvmcn-hort:2020.005111333Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19Silvana NICOLA0Antonio FERRANTE1Giacomo COCETTA2Roberta BULGARI3Carlo NICOLETTO4Paolo SAMBO5Andrea ERTANI6University of Turin, DISAFA, Via Leonardo da Vinci, 44 - Largo Paolo Braccini, 2 - 10095 Grugliasco (TO)University of Milan, Landscape, Agroenergy, DiSAA, Via Celoria, 2 – 20133 Milano (MI)University of Milan, Landscape, Agroenergy, DiSAA, Via Celoria, 2 – 20133 Milano (MI)University of Milan, Landscape, Agroenergy, DiSAA, Via Celoria, 2 – 20133 Milano (MI)University of Padua, Animals and Environment, DAFNAE, Agripolis - Viale dell’Università, 16 - Legnaro (Padova)University of Padua, Animals and Environment, DAFNAE, Agripolis - Viale dell’Università, 16 - Legnaro (Padova)University of Turin, DISAFA, Via Leonardo da Vinci, 44 - Largo Paolo Braccini, 2 - 10095 Grugliasco (TO),The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has highlighted the vulnerability of the agrifood system. The urgent need to supply fresh food has arisen everywhere. Lockdown slowed down the fresh vegetables supply in the long distance distribution chains. In addition, the total confinement occurred in many countries left the people not only distressed, but also in the need to divert daily spare time to a new home gardening vitalization. During the pandemic, sales in local and street markets declined dramatically, while most purchases became concentrated in supermarkets. This fact has increased the risk of crowdedness and thus contamination or regulated entrances in the supermarkets, or left communities in small towns with limited access to food supply due to the lack of big grocery stores. Gardening can increase opportunities for local and fresh food availability. Scaling-up local food production becomes important to increase resilience of communities. The pandemic may represent an important opportunity to enhance a new era of gardening with modern technology along with traditional systems.https://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/horticulture/article/view/13892home food productionlockdownpandemicurban horticulture. |
| spellingShingle | Silvana NICOLA Antonio FERRANTE Giacomo COCETTA Roberta BULGARI Carlo NICOLETTO Paolo SAMBO Andrea ERTANI Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19 Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Horticulture home food production lockdown pandemic urban horticulture. |
| title | Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19 |
| title_full | Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19 |
| title_fullStr | Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19 |
| title_short | Food Supply and Urban Gardening in the Time of Covid-19 |
| title_sort | food supply and urban gardening in the time of covid 19 |
| topic | home food production lockdown pandemic urban horticulture. |
| url | https://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/horticulture/article/view/13892 |
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