Community perception and participation of urban farming activities
Dynamic of urban farming brings a significance which contributed by the fast growth of urban population. In some developed countries like Japan and Singapore, the approaches of urban farming inside of the buildings of residential, offices or workplaces, commercial and industrial lots at the cit...
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| Language: | English English |
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Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication (BEIESP)
2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/73605/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/73605/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/73605/1/73605_Community%20Perception%20and%20Participation.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/73605/7/73605_Community%20perception%20and%20participation%20of%20urban%20farming%20activities_Scopus.pdf |
| Summary: | Dynamic of urban farming brings a
significance which contributed by the fast growth of urban
population. In some developed countries like Japan and
Singapore, the approaches of urban farming inside of the
buildings of residential, offices or workplaces, commercial and
industrial lots at the city center were already begin to pop-up and
embedded. Farming knowledge can form an effective and good
intervention for city dwellers to move uplift to the better
education and stand right at the higher degree of social cohesion.
The aim of the paper is to investigate the community perception
and later about their participation, which will support the
embedment process of farming activities in urban areas. The
paper employed quantitative method in eliciting the collected
data. The Statistical Package Solutions for Social Science (SPSS)
Version 24.0 software is used to analyses the data. The findings
show that the urban dwellers have a favorable perspective
concerning urban farming approach. Economical aspects in
living expenses proved a great significant different in generating
desires on growing food for self-consumption and saving the cost
in food expenditure. The paper also indicates that beneficial
practices to grow valuable urban farming activities in Malaysia
as the support from each community are required to make
excellent promotion for everyone to realize and concern on the
importance of growing foods in fast growing urban cities
especially in terms of environmental, social, economic and
healthy lifestyles. |
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