Pilot Study on Community Gardens and Food Purchases in Deprived Neighborhood (Marseille, France)

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement

Status

Completed

Conditions

Nutritional Quality of Food Purchases

Treatments

Behavioral: Access to a community garden in deprived neighborhoods

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03175575

Jassur-Marseille

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pilot study aims to investigate the place of fresh garden produce in the food supply and food practices of women in community gardens of deprived neighborhoods of Marseille, reputed to be among the poorest in the European Union. We hypothesized that access to a community garden in these neighborhoods could help instigate the adoption of healthier food patterns by gardeners and their households, and in particular, increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Full description

Urban community gardening was explored in terms of (i) food production, (ii) nutrition and economics, and (iii) cultural, social, and symbolic dimensions, by social and nutritional science approaches, involving informative questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and a nutritional and economic analysis of household food supplies.

Enrollment

21 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria