Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032022697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Anne Siebert

Opis

This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the ‘critical urban food perspective’. It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. 1. Why food sovereignty in the city matters now. 2. Rethinking South Africa's agri-food system: notions of food sovereignty and urban agriculture. 3. Exposing marginalisation: Food and farming in the city. 4. Proposing food sovereignty. 5. Politicising alternatives from below. 6. Conclusions: Urban South Africa and beyond.

O autorze

Anne Siebert is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She obtained a joint PhD degree in International Development Studies from the IEE and the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research experience and interest revolve around food politics and social movements, and how these have shaped dominant agri-food systems, governance, rural-urban interlinkages, as well as research methodology.