Florecer la mente en la ciudad: Cómo la agricultura urbana apoya la salud mental

Katia Hernández Moreno

doi:10.35830/mcya.vi22.411

Authors

Katia Hernández Moreno Laboratorio de Estudios Transdisciplinarios sobre el Ambiente Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, UNAM Unidad Morelia. Morelia, Michoacán, México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35830/mcya.vi22.411

Keywords:

Urban agriculture, urban garden, health, mental health

Abstract

The present work analyzes the contributions that the practice of agriculture in the city of Morelia has on the mental health of the participants. The results shown are part of a broader investigation that addresses the different components that urban agriculture (UA) has on health and the urban environment, so at present it only develops the mental health (MH) fragment.

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