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- Title
Rooftop gardening complexities in the Global South: Motivations, practices, and politics.
- Authors
Turner, Sarah; Pham, Thi‐Thanh‐Hiên; Ngô, Hạnh Thúy; Zuberec, Celia
- Abstract
An increasing number of urban residents in the Global South are turning to rooftop gardening, whether through soil or hydroponics, to cultivate their own vegetables, fruit, and herbs. In Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, rooftop gardening serves as an important alternative to traditional wet markets and more recently established supermarkets. In this paper, we examine the motivations, practices, and constraints of Hanoi's rooftop gardeners, along with the level of government support or disapproval for rooftop gardening. Our study is grounded in critical urban geography and urban political ecology and specific debates regarding informal life politics. Our findings reveal that Hanoi's rooftop gardeners feel confronted by a critical food safety crisis, emphasising their need to access safe, fresh, and affordable produce through rooftop gardening. Simultaneously, they express scepticism about the capacity and willingness of formal political institutions at both the municipal and national levels to address and resolve these concerns. We explore whether Hanoi's urban rooftop gardeners can be considered to be engaging in a form of everyday life politics and examine the dynamics emerging in this regard. We conclude by offering potential policy recommendations for Global South cities to support urban gardening communities.
- Subjects
HANOI (Vietnam); ROOF gardening; DEVELOPING countries; URBAN geography; POLITICAL geography; URBAN gardening; VEGETABLE gardening; URBAN agriculture
- Publication
Geographical Research, 2024, Vol 62, Issue 2, p248
- ISSN
1745-5863
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1745-5871.12631