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Articlenpj urban sustainability2023

Urban agriculture in walkable neighborhoods bore fruit for health and food system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Akiko Iida, Takahiro Yamazaki, Kimihiro Hino, Makoto Yokohari

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Article in npj urban sustainability, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Climate change and social health.Nature human behaviour · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Akiko IidaDepartment of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1138656 Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-4795-267X
Takahiro YamazakiDepartment of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1138656 Japan.
Kimihiro HinoDepartment of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1138656 Japan.
Makoto YokohariDepartment of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1138656 Japan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Urban agriculture is the key to creating healthy cities and developing resilient urban food systems in uncertain times. However, relevant empirical evidence is limited. This study quantitatively verified the association of access to local food through urban agriculture with subjective well-being, physical activity, and food security concerns of neighborhood communities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The target was Tokyo, Japan, where small-scale local food systems are widespread in walkable neighborhoods. We found that diversity in local food access, ranging from self-cultivation to direct-to-consumer sales, was significantly associated with health and food security variables. In particular, the use of allotment farms was more strongly associated with subjective well-being than the use of urban parks, and it was more strongly associated with the mitigation of food security concerns than the use of food retailers. These findings provide robust evidence for the effectiveness of integrating urban agriculture into walkable neighborhoods.

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AgricultureCivil engineeringEnvironmental studiesQuality of lifeUrban ecology

Identifiers

PMID37521202
PMCPMC9890428

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