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Community garden programme: the volunteers' satisfaction


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Ramalingam, Leelanayagi and Sharifuddin, Juwaidah and Mohamed, Zainal Abidin and Ali, Fazlin (2018) Community garden programme: the volunteers' satisfaction. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8 (5). pp. 437-443. ISSN 2222-6990

Abstract

Urban agriculture that is being practised by 800 million people worldwide is beneficial in term of social, economy and environment. Malaysia is practising urban agriculture due to the role it plays in overcoming the dilemma of food insecurity. Urban agriculture is known as food production activities in cities. Community Garden Programme is a type of Urban Agriculture Programme which is supported by various organisations. The main goal of this paper is to identify the volunteers’ satisfaction level and those who are really satisfied with the Community Garden Programme. Items used to measure volunteers’ satisfaction were adapted from Omoto and Snyder (1995). The survey with 375 volunteers indicated that majority of them were satisfied with the Community Garden Programme. Moreover, elderly males were significantly satisfied with the programme. Hence, approaching elderly male for volunteering in Community Garden Programme may produce fruitful result because highly satisfied volunteers tend to continue with volunteering in the future.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i5/4115
Publisher: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
Keywords: Community garden programme; Urban agriculture; Independent sample t-test; Volunteerism; Malaysia
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 10 Apr 2019 01:46
Last Modified: 10 Apr 2019 01:46
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14795
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