Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
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.
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 Laureate 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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Names: Battersby, Jane, 1975 editor, author. | Watson, Vanessa, editor.
Title: Urban food systems governance and poverty in African cities / edited by Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson.
Other titles: Routledge studies in food, society and environment.
Description: Routledge : New York, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in food, society and the environment | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010500| ISBN 9781138726758 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315191195 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Food securityAfrica, Sub-Saharan. | Food supplyGovernment policyAfrica, Sub-Saharan. | PovertyAfrica, Sub-Saharan. | UrbanizationAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
Classification: LCC HD9017.A3572 U73 2018 | DDC 338.1967dc23
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Contents
JANE BATTERSBY AND VANESSA WATSON
Part I
Urbanisation, poverty, food and measurement
MUNA SHIFA AND JACQUELINE BOREL-SALADIN
JONATHAN CRUSH AND LIAM RILEY
JANE BATTERSBY AND GARETH HAYSOM
JACQUELINE BOREL-SALADIN, MUNA SHIFA, AND ANN DONALD
Part II
Urban food governance and planning
JAMES DUMINY
WARREN SMIT
CAROLINE SKINNER
PATRICK ODHIAMBO HAYOMBE, FREDRICK OMONDI OWINO, AND FRANKLINE OTIENDE AWUOR
JANE BATTERSBY AND FRANCIS MUWOWO
EASTHER CHIGUMIRA, GODFREY TAWODZERA, OLIVER MANJENGWA, AND IDAH MBENGO
PERCY TORIRO
Part III
Understanding the urban food systems
LESLEY SIBANDA AND HARRO VON BLOTTNITZ
PAUL OTIENO OPIYO AND HARUN OKELLO OGINDO
ISSAHAKA FUSEINI, JANE BATTERSBY, AND NIRAJ JAIN
GODFREY TAWODZERA, EASTHER CHIGUMIRA, IDAH MBENGO, AND SAMUEL KUSANGAYA
Part IV
The state of urban food poverty and its connections to the food system
GEORGE GODWIN WAGAH, NELSON OBANGE, AND HARUN OKELLO OGINDO
ISSAHAKA FUSEINI AND OWEN SICHONE
GODFREY TAWODZERA AND EASTHER CHIGUMIRA
This book presents the findings of an international collaborative research project that aimed to improve our understanding of the connections between urban poverty, food systems, household food security and governance, by focusing on three secondary cities in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa.
On the whole, colonial governments sought to prevent people from moving into urban areas, not least because of the potentially politically destabilising effects of population concentrations. Where urban workers were needed, the colonial powers developed urban policies and governance systems that were strongly influenced by European ideas about well-planned towns and cities and public health concerns but disenfranchised urban residents. In these contexts, colonial governments did indeed pay attention to food, through measures that sought to ensure a supply of cheap food for wage workers (a continuing priority for post-independence governments). The reality of increasing ruralurban migration and governance arrangements that were incapable of keeping pace with the demands of low-income urban growth were soon clear, but governments were reluctant to admit the shortcomings of their own policies and urban management systems.