Abstract
Cities and urban areas are under constant stress from natural disasters, and climate changes to pestilences and economic crises, due primarily to human activities and demands. These extraneous circumstances have been aptly highlighted by the recent epidemic, which changed the modus-operandi of the world as we know it. Nevertheless, the nature of this excessive pressure did not change the burden carried by cities to sustain a people, an entire ecosystem, and produce and manage ways that encourage economic successes. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic merely revealed the cracks in cities and nations' already flawed governing systems. So, to what extent will this new information reform a world already in peril? Furthermore, why should it matter that cities undergo altered metamorphosis? What would the given gravities be on people already in survival mode?
Therefore, this study explores urban agricultural perspectives through the microscope of bee technology and how this simple practice and its principles can be incorporated within the urban space to enable resilience, food and nutrition provision, and promote economic accessibility. The methodological approach to the research was completed qualitatively, through the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the social aspects affecting resilience in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. The results reveal that urban agriculture is multifaceted, inclusionary, viable and subject to failure should supporting structures such as legislative handicaps and participant apathy continue. Furthermore, there is a desperate need to make the data available in a quantifiable manner so that there can be simulations that can predict urban agriculture as a resilience strategy.