Urban gardening in Ho Chi Minh City: class, food safety concerns, and the crisis of confidence in farming.
In recent years, the southern Vietnamese metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has seen a proliferation of urban gardening, ranging from the minute home-growing of herbs and vegetables to commercial urban gardens. In this article, I argue that what underlies these phenomena is urbanites' striving to contro...
| Publicado en: | Food, Culture & Society Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 927 - 945 |
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