Household Gardens: A Promising Approach to Enhance Food Security and Sustainability

Amarjit Bhullar ()
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Amarjit Bhullar: University of Northern British Columbia

A chapter in Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development, 2021, pp 61-67 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The lockdowns, shutdowns, and imposition of curfews, necessitated to check the spread of COVID-19, have disturbed the food supply chains resulting in food shortages and price volatilities. So, Covid-19 is an opportunity to think and revive the system of producing food items that can possibly be produced at farm in Punjab. Punjab Agricultural University has developed plans for home gardens with a potential to produce fruits and vegetables round the year, but adoption has failed to pick due to lack of policy support. This policy brief reviews the potential social, economic, and environmental benefits of farm gardens. It also suggests the policy framework for enhancing the adoption of farm garden plans by the farmers along with cost estimates of the policy implementation, institutional support required and a strategy to implement the policy.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4442-9_5

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