Many challenges must be addressed before community gardening can be implemented successfully including assuring land tenure, toxic land clean-up (in some instances), and start-up costs.
hese concerns limit the ability of community members to create and maintain gardens. Local governments have the ability to help their citizens overcome these challenges.
Unfortunately, the majority of cities have yet to adopt active roles to promote community gardening or to help stem food insecurity within their populations.
The principal cause of food insecurity, lack of access to nutritionally adequate foods, is multi-faceted.
Any one community may need a variety of programs to combat food insecurity as well as outside help from organizations with larger resources such as state and federal governments.