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His interest is in the field of urban agriculture and he does service work for the Rotary Club of Manila Crown. I would like to express my gratitude to my professors for giving me the unique opportunity to work on this great urban agriculture project, which has also enabled me to conduct extensive studies and learn about a variety of new topics. I would like to express my gratitude to my colleagues who helped me a lot in collecting relevant data and providing assistance on a regular basis to help me complete this project.
A special sense of gratitude to my partner, Grace, who has been my safe haven all my life. I also dedicate this thesis to my many colleagues and friends who helped me during the process.
INTRODUCTION
According to Smit and Nasr (1992), this is the ideal project because it is capital-poor and labor-intensive and therefore most suitable for low-income families. This research aims to assess people's willingness to promote urban agriculture to other people during this time of the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as their motivation to participate in such a project. According to Villapando (2020), the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened food security and even accessibility to basic food needs, especially in urban communities. Therefore, the Plant Industry Bureau has stepped up the implementation of its urban agriculture program by partnering with LGUs. non-profit organizations and government agencies to develop and promote urban agriculture.
The author believes that urban agriculture can only be successfully integrated into urban areas if consumers positively experience urban agriculture and accept urban farms within their communities. Unconventional ecosystems abound in urban areas: areas originally created for human purposes that provide substantial habitat or services for native biodiversity. A study by Lin, Philpott and Jha (2015) shows that urban agriculture can exhibit high biodiversity, which is often higher than that of other green space areas in the city.
Background of the Study
In the Philippines, planting and selecting rare plants from rural to urban areas has become a trend during the imposed community quarantine. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7 has reiterated its call on the public to immediately report suspected poachers and collectors of wildlife, both plants and animals, of the disturbing pattern of illegal trade. in endemic and endangered plant species. Although in this time of the COVID 19 pandemic, there is already a growing interest in urban agriculture (Arcalas, 2020).
There is a danger with the accumulation of organisms within the forest, because the entire ecosystem will be affected, which will inevitably affect us.
Rationale / Significance of the study
1446 under paragraph 2 states that "Individual plots of such subdivisions (vacant lands), the ownership of which has not been transferred to the purchaser, shall be deemed to form part of the subdivision and shall be subject to the additional tax payable by the operator of the subdivision .” As an example, in Muntinlupa City, the local government amended its revenue code and has imposed an immovable property value tax (Idle Land Tax) through Ordinance 17-123. Based on this policy, if more than half of their land is not utilized, property owners may be taxed with an additional tax. Residential plots that are not in use will be subject to an additional tax of 0.5 percent of their assessed value and 2 percent for commercial/industrial properties (Abad, 2018).
The researcher believes that urban agriculture projects on these vacant plots can alleviate the problem of underutilization. The purpose of this study is to investigate the willingness of the participants in the immediate vicinity to work/participate in promoting urban agriculture to other people in their respective communities and their motivation to work/participate in such a project despite the challenges , which is entailed. of the COVID-19 disease. Personal characteristics will be divided into background information about the participants (e.g. age, gender, education level, economic status, work status, motivation to work/participate in urban farming).
Examining background information is important for this study because the researcher expects that it would be possible to identify characteristics and factors that contribute to significant differences in perceptions about the urban agriculture project and their motivations. Although House Bill 3412 (Integrated Urban Agriculture Act), a bill proposing to develop vacant government and private lands in urban areas into community gardens. This study aims to measure participants' willingness to share their time and knowledge to promote urban agriculture, as well as their motivation to work/participate in such a project, even with the looming danger posed by COVID-19 brought along.
Objectives
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Urban agriculture in the Philippines has seen an unprecedented increase in participants in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Cynthia Villar stated that a renewed interest and enthusiasm in urban agriculture and backyard gardening (during the pandemic) (Press release - Villar: Food self-sufficiency is the main goal of life in the new normal, n.d.,). The restriction brought about by this incident and also the positive portrayal on social media of urban farming forced people to join the movement.
A study by Trends (2018) states that urban gardens are initiatives of local residents and activists whose main motivation for this initiative is to establish urban gardens for their environmental function. Nevertheless, urban gardens are seen as a different means of recreation and leisure, as well as a way to obtain vegetables and plants grown by the local community. In this study, willingness is defined as the qualitative free choice or willingness of the participant's mind to engage in urban farming.
While motivation is the reason or reasons (i.e. food security, sense of community, to learn new knowledge, to help the environment, source of income and to relieve stress during the COVID-19 pandemic) for the participants. The will and motivation of urban gardeners can play an important role in urban food production and contribute to food security and its sustainability. This study would like to establish the profile, willingness and motivation of urban gardeners to engage in such activities.
METHODOLOGY
This location was chosen because, although this group has only existed for one (1) year and three (6) months, it is more established than Location B. The Barangay of Singalong Manila is a newly established urban garden community led by Felimon Tutchica. These people came from different backgrounds, but are all involved in urban agriculture.
Vicinity Map
Tables and Charts
Correlation Analysis
Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis
- RESULTS OF THE STUDY
- DISCUSSIONS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
Being older, being a woman, having a higher education, having a higher estimated monthly family income, having less work status, higher motivation for food security, less motivation for sense of community, less motivation to acquire new knowledge to learn, higher motivation about the environment, less motivation about source of income, and higher motivation to relieve stress have a significant effect on the participants' response to strongly agree to participate in urban farming to spend their time and sharing knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Hovorka, Zeeuw and Njenga, (2009), this can be attributed to women who bare responsibility for household maintenance, thus dominating urban agriculture. Which suggests that urban agriculture is often seen as more accommodating to the urban poor.
Being older, being a woman, having a higher education, having a higher estimated monthly household income, having a lower employment status, higher motivation for food security, lower motivation for a sense of community, lower motivation for learning new knowledge, higher motivation for the environment , less motivation in terms of source of income and higher motivation to relieve stress have a significant effect on the participants' response to strongly agree to participate in urban agriculture and share their time and knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic. These results should be taken into account when considering how to promote urban agriculture in the Philippines. I was rejected or disregarded for an in-person interview primarily due to the physical limitations imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened food security and even access to basic food needs, especially in urban communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased food insecurity in urban centers due to disruptions in the food supply chain, the weakening of physical and economic barriers to food access, and a catastrophic increase in food waste due to labor shortages. A key strategy is to increase accessibility at the household and community level through home gardening and urban agriculture.
It also showed that women are more receptive than men to share their time and knowledge for urban agriculture during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although an area devoted to urban agriculture pales in comparison to the carbon sequestration capacity of a forested area (Lin & Lin 2013; Strohbach et al. 2012), urban agriculture can still impact the global climate through the environmental impact of food-related food to reduce transport. With this current restriction brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and the possible quarantine extension, it is therefore timely to involve our citizens in urban agriculture.
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