Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption

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Autor(a) principal: Nova, Paulo
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Pinto, Elisabete, Chaves, Benedita, Silva, Margarida
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26298
Resumo: Objective: To describe the environmental practices of participants in an urban organic community garden at the beginning of their gardening experience and after a period of six months, and to discover their opinion about how this activity influenced the consumption of vegetables, fruits and organic food. Method: Interviews using structured questionnaires were conducted twice with 115 city dwellers: when they started in the vegetable garden and about 6 months later. The questionnaire included questions related to environmental practices. The second evaluation also included questions related to the consumption of organic food, vegetables and fruit. Results: This research showed significant behavioural transformation, including positive outcomes in environmental practices such as recycling and trying to persuade friends or family to recycle, compost leftovers or choose to walk/bike to save petrol. In the opinion of the participants, activities in the organic community garden helped to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and organic food. Conclusion: The study results reinforce the hypothesis that an organic community vegetable garden can induce significant, positive behavioural changes among its users. In particular this research suggests horticulture is associated with positive improvements in personal environmental behaviours, awareness of the environment’s high social priority and increased consumption of organic food, fruit and vegetables.
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spelling Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumptionEnvironmentPreventive medicine & public healthCommunity healthOrganic agricultureOrganic foodEnvironmental healthObjective: To describe the environmental practices of participants in an urban organic community garden at the beginning of their gardening experience and after a period of six months, and to discover their opinion about how this activity influenced the consumption of vegetables, fruits and organic food. Method: Interviews using structured questionnaires were conducted twice with 115 city dwellers: when they started in the vegetable garden and about 6 months later. The questionnaire included questions related to environmental practices. The second evaluation also included questions related to the consumption of organic food, vegetables and fruit. Results: This research showed significant behavioural transformation, including positive outcomes in environmental practices such as recycling and trying to persuade friends or family to recycle, compost leftovers or choose to walk/bike to save petrol. In the opinion of the participants, activities in the organic community garden helped to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and organic food. Conclusion: The study results reinforce the hypothesis that an organic community vegetable garden can induce significant, positive behavioural changes among its users. In particular this research suggests horticulture is associated with positive improvements in personal environmental behaviours, awareness of the environment’s high social priority and increased consumption of organic food, fruit and vegetables.ElsevierVeritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaNova, PauloPinto, ElisabeteChaves, BeneditaSilva, Margarida2018-12-10T14:27:52Z20202020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26298engNova, P., Pinto, E., Chaves, B., Silva, M. (2020). Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption. Gaceta Sanitaria, 34(1):4–90213-911110.1016/j.gaceta.2018.09.0011578-12838505701228430471837000531103200002info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-12-05T01:36:34Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/26298Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:20:58.668770Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
title Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
spellingShingle Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
Nova, Paulo
Environment
Preventive medicine & public health
Community health
Organic agriculture
Organic food
Environmental health
title_short Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
title_full Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
title_fullStr Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
title_full_unstemmed Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
title_sort Urban organic community gardening to promote environmental sustainability practices and increase fruit, vegetables and organic food consumption
author Nova, Paulo
author_facet Nova, Paulo
Pinto, Elisabete
Chaves, Benedita
Silva, Margarida
author_role author
author2 Pinto, Elisabete
Chaves, Benedita
Silva, Margarida
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Nova, Paulo
Pinto, Elisabete
Chaves, Benedita
Silva, Margarida
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Environment
Preventive medicine & public health
Community health
Organic agriculture
Organic food
Environmental health
topic Environment
Preventive medicine & public health
Community health
Organic agriculture
Organic food
Environmental health
description Objective: To describe the environmental practices of participants in an urban organic community garden at the beginning of their gardening experience and after a period of six months, and to discover their opinion about how this activity influenced the consumption of vegetables, fruits and organic food. Method: Interviews using structured questionnaires were conducted twice with 115 city dwellers: when they started in the vegetable garden and about 6 months later. The questionnaire included questions related to environmental practices. The second evaluation also included questions related to the consumption of organic food, vegetables and fruit. Results: This research showed significant behavioural transformation, including positive outcomes in environmental practices such as recycling and trying to persuade friends or family to recycle, compost leftovers or choose to walk/bike to save petrol. In the opinion of the participants, activities in the organic community garden helped to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and organic food. Conclusion: The study results reinforce the hypothesis that an organic community vegetable garden can induce significant, positive behavioural changes among its users. In particular this research suggests horticulture is associated with positive improvements in personal environmental behaviours, awareness of the environment’s high social priority and increased consumption of organic food, fruit and vegetables.
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