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Author:   Jane Battersby ,  Vanessa Watson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138726758

ISBN 10:   1138726753
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   20 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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From the outset, it was recognised that household livelihoods cannot be understood in isolation from the wider economic and political linkages that provide or constrain household choices related to income earning, consumption, land and housing tenure, access to services and political participation. For some years, too little attention was given to these wider links, including the environmental and governance systems that influence water supply and waste management, energy supply and, indeed, food. Gradually, more attention has been given to them and it is in the latter area that this book makes its path-breaking contribution. ...I look forward to this team and others taking forward the research, policy and practice work identified. This research shows that future work needs to overtly acknowledge and analyse the realities of political power relationships, examine the drivers and characteristics of changes in urban food wholesaling and retailing systems, and ensure that analysis and policy is gendered throughout. taken from the Foreword by Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK

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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.

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