Building community resilience

Abstract

Nutrition of population is an embedded issue of developing community resilience, which constantly needs new approaches for delivering sustainable food systems. Therefore, urban developers should think of re-introducing landscapes and urban spaces within communities as productive spaces. Therefore, it proposes neglected urban open spaces (NUOS) as a chance, which can create new models of school farm (SF). That leads to providing the urban food system with new effective food resources to meet the school’s needs for organic food, and solve the critical environmental, social, and health of the urban food system for resilient communities. This chapter mentions that NUOS form a complex urban arrangement inside the communities with wide-ranging variables and different land use. Besides, SF is facing multiple barriers from financial, economic, planning, social, educational, and behavioral aspects to be added between the community’s urban spaces. Consequently, all the classifications of NUOS can overcome barriers by revitalizing them as SFs based on the physical attributes of NUOS such as the ease of accessibility from the surrounding educational facilities, and the ownership of NUOS. Then, the sustainable success of developing NUOS into SFs demands their insertion into the strategic plan of community development. Then, food concerns can reshape NUOS to overcome the conflict between urban development and agricultural needs.