The garden as the field: following soil regeneration practices with participatory soil science in Singapore

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Agriculture and Human Values Pub Date : 2025-06-17 DOI:10.1007/s10460-025-10757-6

Huiying Ng, Toh Han Jing, Wuan See Vivian Lee, Edgar Raeben George, Varughese Philip

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Abstract

Soil is an essential part of urban foodscapes. While community gardens have received attention as parts of this foodscape, the role of experienced gardeners in the everyday transformation of human-soil relations is underexamined. This paper traces an action research project aimed at connecting human-soil relations with the “30 by 30” national food security policy that is part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030. Based on a collaboration initiated by a community group with the National Parks Board of Singapore, this paper introduces the concept of “soil companions”, and presents the qualitative findings of a larger 36-month study. It examines the practices of experienced gardeners who build soil as bioinfrastructure. A thematic analysis of interviews with five soil companions–gardeners employing soil regeneration practices–in Singapore was conducted. We discuss the ecological and social dimensions of their practices, and implications for soil and food security policies for an increasingly urban world. We raise future directions for research on foodscapes, public health, and global commodity chains.

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作为田地的花园：新加坡参与式土壤科学的土壤再生实践

土壤是城市食物景观的重要组成部分。虽然社区花园作为食物景观的一部分受到了关注，但经验丰富的园丁在人类与土壤关系的日常转变中的作用尚未得到充分研究。本文追溯了一个行动研究项目，旨在将人类与土壤的关系与“30 by 30”国家粮食安全政策联系起来，这是新加坡2030年绿色计划的一部分。基于一个社区团体与新加坡国家公园委员会发起的合作，本文介绍了“土壤伴侣”的概念，并介绍了一项为期36个月的大型研究的定性结果。它考察了经验丰富的园丁将土壤作为生物基础设施的做法。对新加坡五位土壤同伴（采用土壤再生实践的园丁）的访谈进行了专题分析。我们讨论了这些做法的生态和社会层面，以及对日益城市化的世界土壤和粮食安全政策的影响。我们提出了未来在食品景观、公共卫生和全球商品链方面的研究方向。

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Agriculture and Human Values 农林科学-科学史与科学哲学

CiteScore

6.70

自引率

13.30%

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审稿时长

>36 weeks

期刊介绍： Agriculture and Human Values is the journal of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. The Journal, like the Society, is dedicated to an open and free discussion of the values that shape and the structures that underlie current and alternative visions of food and agricultural systems. To this end the Journal publishes interdisciplinary research that critically examines the values, relationships, conflicts and contradictions within contemporary agricultural and food systems and that addresses the impact of agricultural and food related institutions, policies, and practices on human populations, the environment, democratic governance, and social equity.