From crisis to opportunity: exploring urban food growing in the UK during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Blythe, Chris, Caputo, Silvio, Hardman, Michael, Milbourne, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-885X, Samangooei, Mina and Schoen, Victoria 2025. From crisis to opportunity: exploring urban food growing in the UK during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Kingsley, Jonathan and Egerer, Monika, eds. Crisis Gardening: A Global Perspective., Advances in Agroecology, Abingdon: CRC Press, pp. 70-80. (10.1201/9781003435631-9)

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of urban green spaces, nature, connected communities and resilient food supply chains. Focusing on the UK, this chapter provides a narrative review of how urban food growing has responded to past crises before moving on to provide a detailed account of urban food growing during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the positive impacts that urban food growing had on individual, household and community resilience, well-being, environment and local food systems during the pandemic and suggest that further recognition of and support for urban food growing would ensure that it is better able to respond to future crises.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	CRC Press
ISBN:	9781032564609
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2025 09:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181458

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