Description of environmental benefits
-Increased green space area: "This joint effort started two months ago when neighbours learned to sow, cultivate, care for and harvest different foods on a small scale. After that, they implemented a community bio-garden." (2)
-Increased number of species present: "The residents of Villa Mosha have organised themselves in such a way that they have planted all kinds of vegetables at the door of their common pot. In this area here we have infusions of camomile, fennel, mint; here we have lettuce, we have it all over there; rosemary, mint, coriander, coriander and oregano are already there." (5)
Description of economic benefits
- Increase in agricultural production (for profit or not): "More than 35 families in the settlement have benefited from these vegetables; they are expected to provide 100 rations for the community kitchen" (1, 2); "30 kg of radishes produced in one month." (1)
Please specify other socio-cultural impact
- Increase families' food, economic, and environmental security in poverty and vulnerable situations, particularly women and girls in urban and peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima: expected. "The MUSA Project will be developed over two years in the search for increased food, economic and environmental security for poor and vulnerable families, particularly women and girls in urban and peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima." (3)
- Increase political participation in the development of urban agriculture: "The Cycle of Training in Political Advocacy and Public Policy Development in Urban Agriculture sought to strengthen the capacities of these women and young people to promote agroecology and the environment through local public policy proposals." (4)
This is an indicator of the Municipal programme, which includes the implementation of this biogarden, but it is not an indicator specific to it:
-Promote NBS-related trainings: At the metropolitan level, the Lima municipality has reached human settlements in San Juan de Lurigancho, Villa El Salvador, Comas, Ate, San Martín de Porres, Pachacámac, Villa María del Triunfo, Carabayllo, Chorrillos, El Agustino, Puente Piedra and Lurín with its Biohuertos en Ollas Comunes initiative, where it has provided 179 practical workshops in 281 community kitchens, trained 8,322 families and benefited 37,147 people (7).
Description of social and cultural benefits
-Improved access to urban green space: "As part of the strategy of territorial attention Lima Te Cuida, the Municipality of Lima has been training residents of vulnerable areas in front of COVID-19 on how to implement a bio-garden and produce organic fertiliser in their homes." (1)
-Increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces: "The Huertera a Huertera programme establishes equipment and field schools where urban agriculture promoters share their knowledge and experiences with other people as new allies and partners. In the case of the MUSA Project, it involves the implementation of gardens in communal pots in a learning-by-doing dynamic." (3)
- Increased access to healthy/affordable food: "There are five social kitchens to which we belong, benefitting the most vulnerable" (5); "more than 35 families in the settlement have benefited from these vegetables; they are expected to provide 100 rations for the common pot." (1)
- Increased awareness of NBS and their benefits: "The next step is to give them a composting workshop. In this composting workshop, what we are going to do is that they are going to make the most of the organic waste that they generate during the preparation of these foods. In addition to this, we are going to teach them how to propagate other vegetables as well, so that they don't depend too much on seeds." (5)
