Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
PLoS One. 2020 Apr 7;15(4):e0230693. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230693. eCollection 2020.
Gathering of uncultivated food from green spaces, also known as foraging, is observed in urban areas across the world, but the literature focuses predominantly on the global north. Our study examines the existing urban land management structure and its approach to urban foraging in the eastern coastal region of South Africa. Through interviews with municipal officials in nine cities, we identified different stakeholders and their roles in urban green space management. We then used network analysis to represent interactions and influence of these stakeholders, and environmental worldviews to determine organisational and perceptual barriers to and enablers of foraging in urban green spaces. The policy on urban green space management, as well as land managers themselves are amenable to the concept of foraging in public spaces. Lack of knowledge on wild indigenous species and sustainable offtake, ambiguous, coarse, or lacking policy, and normative views of pristine nature may hinder foraging. We recommend pathways for policy and stakeholder partnerships to incorporate sustainable foraging in their biodiversity conservation and land stewardship strategies.
从绿地中采集未栽培的食物，也称为觅食，在世界各地的城市中都有观察到，但文献主要集中在全球北方。我们的研究考察了南非东部沿海地区现有的城市土地管理结构及其对城市觅食的处理方式。通过对九个城市的市政官员进行访谈，我们确定了不同的利益相关者及其在城市绿地管理中的角色。然后，我们使用网络分析来表示这些利益相关者的相互作用和影响，并使用环境世界观来确定城市绿地觅食的组织和感知障碍以及促进因素。城市绿地管理政策以及土地管理者本身都倾向于在公共空间中接受觅食的概念。缺乏对野生本土物种的知识和可持续的采食量、政策模糊、粗糙或缺乏、以及对原始自然的规范观念可能会阻碍觅食。我们建议通过政策和利益相关者合作，为可持续觅食纳入其生物多样性保护和土地管理战略的途径。
