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Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities book cover

1st Edition

Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities

Edited By Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush, Cameron McCordic Copyright 2018
208 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Introduction: Divorcing Food and Agriculture: Towards an Agenda for Urban Food Security Research

Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne and Cameron McCordic

2. Alternative Food Networks in the Global South

Gareth Haysom

3. Measuring Urban Food Security

Cameron McCordic and Bruce Frayne

4. Food Supply and Urban-Rural Links in Southern African Cities

Bruce Frayne and Jonathan Crush

5. Migration and Urbanization: Consequences for Food Security

Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne

6. Urban Social Protection and Food Systems: Lessons from South Africa

Gareth Haysom and Issahaka Fuseini

7. Gender and Food Security: Household Dynamics and Outcomes

Liam Riley and Alexander Legwegoh

8. Farming in the City: the Role of Urban Agriculture

Jonathan Crush, Daniel Tevera and Alice Hovorka

9. Nutrition, Disease and Development: Long-wave Impacts of Food Insecurity

Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush and Milla McLachlan

10. The Triple Burden of HIV, TB and Food Insecurity

Mary Caesar and Jonathan Crush

11. Untangling Infrastructure Access, Housing Informality and Food Security Among Poor Urban Households in Southern Africa

Cameron McCordic and Bruce Frayne

12. The ‘Supermarketization’ of Food Supply and Retail: Private Sector Interests and Household Food Security

Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne

13. Beyond AFSUN: Future Research Directions and Challenges for Urban Household Food Security

Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne and Cameron McCordic

Biography

Bruce Frayne is Associate Professor of International Development and currently serves as the Director of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) in the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment, Canada.

Jonathan Crush holds the CIGI Chair in Global Migration and Development at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Cameron McCordic is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada.

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