The Community Gardens Beyond Communities programme funded by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute focuses on the role of local community activism in addressing climate change and related challenges faced by urban centres.
The programme involves a monthly series of seminars involving highlighting the work of policy-makers, community activists and academic partners from Scotland, Brazil, Portugal, Nepal, Mexico and Kenya. The aim of the seminars is to build capacity to influence individual and collective changes that can mobilise local communities to be more active to address environmental challenges – such as reuse of organic waste, production of food and strengthened links with wider urban issues that impact on most vulnerable groups. The focus will be on how community gardens can be catalysts for wider community mobilisation on environmental issues.
The Nepal partners have, in particular, done a lot of work with children and schools.
Link to further information: https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/UNGlobalGoals/CommunityGardens.aspx
