Community-based urban agriculture for food justice
Résumé
This chapter explores the potential of community gardens in creating community capital and achieving food justice by drawing upon research on community-based urban agriculture. The Community Capitals Framework offers a useful distinction of the different principles that guide social, economic, cultural, natural, and political forms of capital that policymakers must recognize and support at the beginning of every community-based urban agriculture project. This chapter helps us understand the complex processes involved in growing healthy, sustainable, and just communities. It does so by bringing together previously disparate literature sources that have in common as a goal line to provide a comprehensive understanding of urban agriculture as an opportunity for economic, social, and environmental change at the community level.