Community Garden Programme – An Analysis of Volunteers’ Motivations and Age Groups
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
Community-based Urban Agriculture Programme was implemented by Malaysian government as an approach to overcome issues related to overpopulation including food insecurity and urban poverty. Nevertheless, attracting urban dwellers to be volunteers for the programme has become the key challenge for Local Authorities. Hence, this study aims to determine factors that motivateurban dwellers to join the programme and to understand whether age has an impact on various sortsof motivations. A Modified Volunteer Functions Inventory was utilised to measure the volunteers’ motivation. The primary data was collected by using paper-based questionnaires with 375 Community Garden Programme volunteers. Descriptive analysis and multivariate analysis of variance were applied to analyse the collected data. The outcome of the researchexhibited that love of farming was the most important motive and social was the least important motive for the urban dwellers to be involved in Community Garden Programme. Moreso, the findings specified that there weresignificant differences in volunteer’ motivations according to their age groups. Thus, this study will be able to assist the Local Authorities in the volunteers’ recruitment process.
Authors and Affiliations
Leelanayagi Ramalingam, Juwaidah Sharifuddin, Zainal Abidin Mohamed, Fazlin Ali
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