Category FAQs Search : Urban Farming
Question: Motivations for sustaining urban farming participation
Answer: Farming in urban areas is recognised as a sustainable approach
towards the provision of food and has increased in Malaysia over recent years.
Nonetheless, sustaining the people’s participation in urban farming is
challenging. Despite numerous researches in the past on the types of
motivations for urban farming participation, only a few of those researches
have been on the motivations of urban farming participants in Malaysia. This
paper reports on a research about the motivational factors for urban farming
participation in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was
conducted, of which the respondents comprised 243 practitioners of urban
farming in Selangor. The results revealed that physical and mental health and
the environment were the motivations with the highest scores among urban
farming practitioners. Further investigations are warranted to understand the
influences of age, gender and race on urban farming motivations and to help
sustain urban farming programs.
(Source: , 28 Sep 2021)
Source Link: https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1504/IJARGE.2019.099799