Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367587567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str.

Jane Battersby; Vanessa Watson

Opis

This book seeks to address urban poverty in Africa, and particularly in smaller cities, by examining linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance.

Spis treści

Foreword by Carole Rakodi Introduction  PART I: URBANIZATION, POVERTY, FOOD AND MEASUREMENT  1. African urbanization and poverty  2. Rural bias and urban food security  3. Linking urban food security, urban food systems, poverty and urbanization  4. Understanding and addressing poverty, labour force and urbanization data gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa  PART II: URBAN FOOD GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING  5. Historical Urban Food Governance in Africa: The Case of Kenya, c. 1900 to 1950  6. Urban food governance and planning in Africa  7. Contributing and yet excluded? Informal food retail in African cities  8. Planning and Governance of Food Systems in Kisumu, Kenya  9. Planning and Governance of Food Systems in Kitwe, Zambia: a case study of food retail space  10. Governance of Food Systems in Epworth, Zimbabwe  11. Urban food production in Harare, Zimbabwe  PART III: UNDERSTANDING THE URBAN FOOD SYSTEMS  12. Food value chains in Kisumu, Kitwe and Epworth: Environmental and Social Hotspots  13. The characteristics of the urban food system in Kisumu, Kenya  14. The characteristics of the urban food system in Kitwe, Zambia: A focus on the retail sector  15. The characteristics of the urban food system in Epworth, Zimbabwe  PART IV: THE STATE OF URBAN FOOD POVERTY AND ITS CONNECTIONS TO THE FOOD SYSTEM  16. Food poverty in Kisumu, Kenya  17. Food poverty in Kitwe, Zambia  18. Food poverty in Epworth, Zimbabwe

O autorze

Jane Battersby is a senior researcher at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is the Research Coordinator of the ESRC/DFID-funded Consuming Urban Poverty project and PI of the IDRC-funded Nourishing Spaces Project. She is the Laurete of the Premio Daniel Carasso 2017. An urban geographer by training, her work focusses on urban food security, food systems and governance.

Vanessa Watson is a Professor of City Planning and Fellow of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  She holds degrees, including a PhD, from South African Universities and the Architectural Association of London, UK, and is on the executive committee of the African Centre for Cities. She is the PI of the ESRC/DFID-funded Consuming Urban Poverty project.