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THE MOTIVATION OF URBAN AGRICULTURE PRACTICE - THE CASE OF LATVIA

Madara Dobele, Andra Zvirbule, Aina Dobele

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Urban agriculture has become increasingly topical in recent years due to both social trends and challenges of sustainable development. Although functions of the urban agriculture, especially economic and social, have been widely explored since the 1990s, the focus is mostly on regions where urban agriculture practices are strategies for survival and basic food security or on highly metropolitan cities, with little focus on countries and cities with a relatively medium or even low population density, thus excluding a significant proportion of countries and practical examples. The aim of the research is to analyse the motivation of urban agricultural practice, determining the population of Latvia as the object of the research. To achieve the aim, following tasks have been set: 1) to identify and classify the main aspects influencing the motivation of urban agriculture; 2) to analyse the motivation of urban agriculture in Latvia, to determine aspects forming it and to analyse influencing factors. To perform tasks and to achieve the aim, the monographic and descriptive method was used for the systematic theoretical review, methods of analysis, synthesis and deduction – for gathering information, identifying and classifying motivational aspects. A sociological questionnaire was developed for the analysis of the motivation of the Latvian population, based on the motivation aspects identified and classified in a result of the theoretical discussion. Results of the study prove that urban agriculture in Latvia is mostly practiced in the form of micro-agriculture for self-consumption. However, there are no dominant groups of aspects influencing the motivation - the motivation of the population with different intensity is influenced by both political and environmental, as well as social and economic aspects.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2021v/6.2/s27.32

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