@inproceedings{61654a91c05b4e68a1f3496deb997bd3,
title = "Greening in the margins: children's perception on the sustainability of urban gardening in informal settlements in San Jose del Monte City, Philippines",
abstract = "This paper aims to examine the views of urban poor children on the sustainability of urban gardening in mid-tier cities. The focus is on children engaged in urban micro-gardening in an informal settlement in San Jose del Monte (SJDM) City, Philippines. Informal settlements in SJDM comprise households under poverty that use vacant lands for micro-gardening as part of their general urban survival. Through remote qualitative interviews with 9–12 years old children (n = 25), this article analyzes children{\textquoteright}s opinions on the ecological benefits of their micro-gardens and the potentials they see in urban farming. Responses show contrasting sentiments. On the one hand, children perceive micro-gardens as helpful to the city{\textquoteright}s ecological sustainability and well-being. They consider urban gardens as a major household survival strategy against food insecurity. But on the other hand, these children have little hopes that urban policymakers will notice their contributions towards the city{\textquoteright}s sustainability. They do not expect significant improvement occurring in their micro-gardens and they fear to lose their micro-gardens due to threats of eviction. Such views of the children put into question the city{\textquoteright}s green governance and urban garden{\textquoteright}s capacity to address equity issues on sustainable food security in cities. This paper proposes that mid-tier cities have the potential to accommodate the vision of sustainable development through urban farming designs. However, this effort could only gain traction by having appropriate city policy acknowledgement of poor households as contributors to urban sustainability. The discussions raised in this work speak more broadly to the field of urban studies to recognize marginalized children{\textquoteright}s voices and their contributions to sustainable development.",
keywords = "Children, Food security, Mid-tier cities, Sustainable development, Urban farming",
author = "Andal, {Aireen Grace}",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-90055-7_58",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030900540",
series = "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "721--734",
editor = "Naida Ademovi{\'c} and Edin Muj{\v c}i{\'c} and Zlatan Ak{\v s}amija and Jasmin Kevri{\'c} and Samir Avdakovi{\'c} and Ismar Voli{\'c}",
booktitle = "Advanced Technologies, Systems, and Applications VI",
address = "United States",
note = "International Symposium on Innovative and Interdisciplinary Applications of Advanced Technologies (IAT) 2021 ; Conference date: 24-07-2021 Through 27-07-2021",
}