1st Edition
Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa
Acknowledgements
1 Why food sovereignty in the city matters now
Confronting the dominant agri-food system
Urban agriculture, exclusion, and calls for food sovereignty
Analytical framework: critical urban food perspective
Research approach
Overview of the book
2 Rethinking South Africa’s agri-food system: Notions of food sovereignty and urban agriculture
South Africa’s commercialised agri-food system
Food sovereignty in discourse: roots, actors, and challenges
Initial challenges
Incipient attempts towards food sovereignty
Further endeavours and urban issues
Notions of urban agriculture and introduction of the case study
Concluding remarks
3 Exposing marginalisation: Food and farming in the city
Initial mobilisation
Socio-economic backgrounds
Different types of urban agriculture and microhistories
Organisation and cooperation
Critical reflection of the prevailing nutrition landscape
Concluding remarks
4 Proposing food sovereignty
Local access to nutritious food
Valuing food providers
Access to land
Community knowledge and skills
Biodiversity and connection to nature
Concluding remarks
5 Politicising alternatives from below
Uncovering political dimensions and rights to the city
Growing food sovereignty across the rural-urban divide
Creating changes within and beyond the existing system
Concluding remarks
6 Conclusions: Urban South Africa and beyond
Critical urban food perspective
Lived realities of food producers at the urban margins
Political dimensions and food producers’ agency
Trajectories of food sovereignty and alliances
Biography
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.
