Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa write by Jonathan Crush. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds value, it needs to be reconfigured to fit the everyday realities and distinctive trajectory of urbanisation in the region. The book goes on to discuss the urban context, where food insecurity is more a problem of access and changing consumption patterns than of insufficient food production. In closing, it approaches food insecurity in Africa as an increasingly urban problem that requires different responses from those applied to rural populations.
Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities write by Jane Battersby. This book was released on 2018-08-22. Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities write by Bruce Frayne. This book was released on 2017-12-22. Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader socio-economic and infrastructural approaches, are misplaced and will remain largely ineffective in ameliorating food and nutrition insecurity for the majority of Africans. Using original data from the African Food Security Urban Network’s (AFSUN) extensive database it is demonstrated that the primary food security challenge for urban households is access to food. Already linked into global food systems and value chains, Africa’s supply of food is not necessarily in jeopardy. Rather, the widespread poverty and informal urban fabric that characterizes Africa’s emerging cities impinge directly on households’ capacity to access food that is readily available. Through the analysis of empirical data collected from 6,500 households in eleven cities in nine countries in Southern Africa, the authors identify the complexity of factors and dynamics that create the circumstances of widespread food and nutrition insecurity under which urban citizens live. They also provide useful policy approaches to address these conditions that currently thwart the latent development potential of Africa’s expanding urban population.
Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi
Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi write by Emmanuel Chilanga. This book was released on 2017-09-26. Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawis capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the dimensions of household food insecurity in these neighbourhoods is critical to sustainable and inclusive growth in Lilongwe. The survey findings provide a complementary perspective to the 2008 AFSUN survey conducted in Blantyre, which suggested a level of food security in urban Malawi that was probably more typical of peri-urban areas where many people farm. Given that informal settlements house most of Malawis urban residents, the Lilongwe research presents a serious public policy challenge for the countrys leaders. Poverty is a profound problem in Malawis rapidly expanding cities. Of particular concern is the poor quality of diets among residents of informal settlements. Precarity of income, reflected in the survey findings of frequent purchasing of staple foods and the need for food sellers to extend credit, appears to be a key driver of food insecurity in these communities. Economically inclusive growth, with better prospects for stable employment and protection for informal-sector workers, appears to be the surest route to improved urban food security in Malawi.
Urban Food Deserts
Urban Food Deserts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Food Deserts write by Jonathan Crush. This book was released on 2021-08-26. Urban Food Deserts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The industrialization of the urban food system, alongside the proliferation of supermarkets, has dramatically transformed the landscape of food accessibility in cities. In many countries, the spatial consolidation of food provisioning has deprived many urban neighbourhoods of easy access to food, particularly foodstuffs integral to a healthy diet. These often socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas are referred to as "food deserts". However, studies of urban food deserts in cities of the Global South are sparse, given their complicated urban food systems with the strong presence of informal food economies and diverse food sources. This book draws on empirical studies from South African, Brazilian and Chinese cities to investigate the food desert narrative, the characteristics of urban food environment and the various socioeconomic factors shaping it, as well as the food security and health consequences of urban food deserts. These studies reveal the limitations of applying the food desert concept to cities in the Global South and call for more holistic measurements of urban food insecurity.
