Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities - PDF
Edited by Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson
Part of the Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment series
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As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe).
The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely.
The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:290 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:22/08/2018
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Category:
- Regional studies
- Development studies
- Food & society
- Urban communities
- Sociology
- Anthropology
- Politics & government
- Development economics
- Medical sociology
- Human geography
- Regional geography
- The environment
- Urban & municipal planning
- Environmental science, engineering & technology
- Agricultural science
- ISBN:9781351751353
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Download Now
- Format:PDF
- Pages:290 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis
- Publication Date:22/08/2018
-
Category:
- Regional studies
- Development studies
- Food & society
- Urban communities
- Sociology
- Anthropology
- Politics & government
- Development economics
- Medical sociology
- Human geography
- Regional geography
- The environment
- Urban & municipal planning
- Environmental science, engineering & technology
- Agricultural science
- ISBN:9781351751353