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Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa

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402 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am03.11.20221st ed. 2023
International researchers coming from multiple points of view including food studies, urban studies, and sustainability studies, are starting to heed the call for further research into the implications for food security of rapidly growing secondary cities in Africa.mehr

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KlappentextInternational researchers coming from multiple points of view including food studies, urban studies, and sustainability studies, are starting to heed the call for further research into the implications for food security of rapidly growing secondary cities in Africa.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-93071-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum03.11.2022
Auflage1st ed. 2023
Seiten402 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXIX, 402 p. 23 illus., 19 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.50306816

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: African Secondary City Food Systems in Context.- Part 1: Food System Actors, Concepts and Governance.- 2. Understanding Secondary City Typologies: A Food Governance Lens.- 3. Practice Theory and Informal Urban Livelihoods in M´Bour, Senegal: A Case Study of Urban Cultivation.- 4. Co-Productive Urban Planning: Protecting and Expanding Food Security in Uganda´s Secondary Cities.- 5. The Role of the Informal Sector in Epworth´s Food System, Zimbabwe.- 6. The Enabling Environment for Informal Food Traders in Nigeria´s Secondary  Cities.- 7. Secondary Cities and Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Part 2: Food Security, Poverty & Livelihoods.- 8. Spatial Characteristics of Urban Food Systems and Food Retailers in Smaller Urban Areas.- 9. Food Insecurity, Food Sourcing and Food Coping Strategies in the O-O-O Urban Corridor, Namibia.- 10. Analysing Diet Composition and Food Insecurity by Socio-Economic Status in Secondary African Cities.- 11. Household Dietary Patterns and Food Security Challenges in Peri-Urban South Africa: A Reflection of High Unemployment in the Wake of Rising Food Prices.- 12.  We eat everyday but I´m perpetually hungry : Interrogating Food System Transformation and (Forced) Dietary Changes in Tamale, Ghana.- 13. Understanding Food Security and Hunger in Xai-Xai, Mozambique.- Part 3: Environments, Linkages and Mobilities.- 14. Hunger in an Agricultural City: Exploring Vulnerability in Dschang, Cameroon.- 15. Non-Timber Forest Products in Cameroon´s Food System and the Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in Dschang.- 16. Accessibility of Sanitary Facilities Among Food Sellers in African Secondary Cities: Implications for Food Safety and Urban Planning Policies.- 17. Migrant Remittances and Household Food Security in Mzuzu, Malawi.- 18. Rural-Urban Migrants in Mzuzu´s Informal Food Trading System.- 19. Rent as Ransom: Lodging and Food Security in Gweru, Zimbabwe.mehr

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Autor


Jonathan Crush  is University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and Professor Extraordinary at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He obtained his first degree at Cambridge University and  his M.A. at  Laurier  and Ph.D. at Queen´s University. He has taught at the National University of Lesotho, the University of Alberta and Queen´s University and has published extensively on African development, migration and food security.  He is currently Director of the Hungry Cities Partnership, a global network focused on the governance of urban food systems under conditions of rapid urbanization.

Dr Liam Riley works on several inter-related projects investigating food security and food systems in Africa´s rapidly growing cities. He holds a PhD (2013) and MA (2008) in Geography from Western University in London, Canada and a BA (2003) in East Asian Studies and African Studies from McGill University. Liamheld a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2016) and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2019) at the BSIA at Wilfrid Laurier University where he is currently an Adjunct Faculty member. His work is rooted in fieldwork in Malawi, Cameroon, South Africa, and Botswana that uses a host of qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate gendered household food strategies in urban Africa and the political economic dimensions of urban food security as a development challenge.

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