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Nazuri, Nur Shuhamin
(2021)
Empowerment of urban agriculture community program’s participants in the Klang Valley, Malaysia.
Doctoral thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Abstract
In Malaysia, Urban Agriculture program’s initiative has brought local communities
together to grow their own food in designated areas and at the same time to empower the
community (Bernama, 2020). According to Strzelecka et al. (2017) participation is
important in strengthening community empowerment. However, lack of participation
among UA community resulted investment and initiative done by government to waste.
This study aims to identify dimension of participation (planning, implementation and
evaluation) level of Urban Agriculture (UA) program’s respondents towards economic
and social empowerment independently, where their effect is design to be moderated by
social capital consisting of bonding, bridging and linking. There are five objectives of
this study which are : 1) to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of UA
program’s respondents and background of UA activities; 2) to determine the level of
participation, social capital and empowerment of UA program’s respondents; 3) to
investigate the relationship between participation and empowerment of UA program’s
respondents; 4) to investigate the relationship between social capital and empowerment
of UA program’s respondents; 5) to determine the moderating effect of social capital in
the relationship between participation and empowerment of UA program’s respondents.
This study recorded majority of the respondents were male, aged between 41-60 years
old, married and has obtained secondary school/vocational. Majority of them are also
either self-employed or retired with family members of 5-12. Furthermore, Klang Valley
UA programs respondents’ level were found to be moderate (planning, implementation,
evaluation, bonding, bridging, linking, social empowerment and economic
empowerment). Addition to that, relationship between participation, social capital
towards empowerment among respondents were found to be insignificant. Hence,
resulting social capital (bonding, bridging and linking) do not have moderator function
on participation to empowerment. This study has three main contributions. First, it contributes to the body of knowledge as
there are not many studies conducted in the field empowerment theory in the perspective
of UA program. Second, it contributes to the practice by exploring factors might
influence empowerment of UA program’s respondents. Third, it contributes to the policy
by assisting concern parties to establish policy to boost the efficiency of the program.
The instrument for this study was developed on the basis of literature review, adopt and
adapt technique and subsequently improved through pilot test. Through multi- stage
random sampling, total of 212 respondents were selected to represents 14 communities
from seven districts namely Sri Muda, Batu Tiga, Semenyih, Dengkil, Templer, Kota
Damansara, and Batu Caves. The data collection employed a structured self-administered
questionnaire through a survey method. The collected data were analyzed using selected
analysis procedure through SPSS software and PLS-SEM.
Referring to the results, the researcher found that level of social capital, participation and
empowerment dimension of UA program’s respondents were at moderate level. For the
direct relationship, social capital and participation indicated non-significant relationship
with empowerment. On top of that, the interaction between participation and social
capital was found to be insignificant to the empowerment.
This study put forward numbers of recommendation. Firstly, is to empower the role of
community leaders; secondly, to conduct courses and workshop and thirdly; to empower
agriculture extension officers. Several recommendations for future studies were
discussed. First, other new variable should be examined and future research will consider
using qualitative methods to conduct in-depth discussions in order to identify any
additional variables with the potential to influence empowerment of UA program’s
respondents. Secondly, future studies should consider in looking factors effecting of
weak networking social capital, and the aspects of strengthening participation of UA
program’s respondents. Thirdly, other possible factors that possibly influence the
empowerment of UA program’s respondents should be investigate. It is anticipated that
findings can be used as a basis for the future research related to UA program in Malaysia.
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Item Type: |
Thesis
(Doctoral)
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Subject: |
Urban agriculture - Malaysia |
Subject: |
Agriculture - Political participation - Malaysia |
Subject: |
Community development, Urban - Malaysia |
Call Number: |
FEM 2022 13 |
Chairman Supervisor: |
Associate Professor Nobaya Ahmad, PhD |
Divisions: |
Faculty of Human Ecology |
Depositing User: |
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Date Deposited: |
11 Oct 2023 07:26 |
Last Modified: |
11 Oct 2023 07:26 |
URI: |
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/104574 |
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