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543210Rating (0 = no contribution, 5 = high contribution)project leadersstakeholdersgeneral publicAverage Ratings of Urban Agriculture’s Contribution to Various Social or Ecological ServicesGroup provision of medicinal plants improvement of neighborhood, attachment improvement of local microclimate
  • For each data category, the following bars are shown:
    • provision of medicinal plants
    • improvement of neighborhood attachment
    • improvement of local microclimate
  • The data for the 3 categories are as follows:
    • project leaders:
      • provision of medicinal plants: 2.0
      • improvement of neighborhood attachment: 3.0
      • improvement of local microclimate: 3.0
    • stakeholders:
      • provision of medicinal plants: 3.6
      • improvement of neighborhood attachment: 4.1
      • improvement of local microclimate: 4.1
    • general public:
      • provision of medicinal plants: 4.6
      • improvement of neighborhood attachment: 4.3
      • improvement of local microclimate: 3.8

Urban agriculture is the practice of growing plant- or animal-based products in urban settings such as community gardens and rooftop farms. Esther Sanyé-Mengual, Kathrin Specht, and their team surveyed three groups of people in Bologna, Italy—leaders of urban agriculture projects, stakeholders in urban agriculture (e.g., food researchers and urban farming associations), and the general public—to compare their views about the extent to which urban agriculture contributes to 25 social or ecological services that the team identified. The survey results show that, on average, project leaders rated urban agriculture as contributing less to blank

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the assertion?