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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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Keywords
- African Food Security Urban Network
- Agriculture
- FAST
- Fast Track Land Reform Programme
- food insecurity
- food poverty
- Food Retail
- food system
- Household Food Insecurity Access Prevalence
- Households
- Informal
- Informal Food
- Informal Food Retailing
- informal food sector
- Insecurity
- Jacqueline Borel-Saladin
- Jonathan Crush
- Liam Riley
- Muna Shifa
- Poor
- retail
- sector
- security
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- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
- track
- Urban Food
- Urban Food Insecurity
- Urban Food Security
- urban food system
- Urban Food Systems Governance
- Vanessa Watson
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315191195Editions