Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities
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 in ameliorating food and nutrition insecurity for the majority of Africans.
Using original data from the African Food Security Urban Networks (AFSUN) extensive database it is demonstrated that the primary food security challenge for urban households is access to food. Already linked into global food systems and value chains, Africas supply of food is not necessarily in jeopardy. Rather, the widespread poverty and informal urban fabric that characterizes Africas emerging cities impinge directly on households capacity to access food that is readily available. Through the analysis of empirical data collected from 6,500 households in eleven cities in nine countries in Southern Africa, the authors identify the complexity of factors and dynamics that create the circumstances of widespread food and nutrition insecurity under which urban citizens live. They also provide useful policy approaches to address these conditions that currently thwart the latent development potential of Africas expanding urban population.
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 Waterloos 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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Food and Nutrition Security in
Southern African Cities
Edited by Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush
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Names: Frayne, Bruce, editor, author. | Crush, Jonathan, 1953- editor, author. | McCordic, Cameron, editor, author.
Title: Food and nutrition security in southern African cities / edited by Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush and Cameron McCordic.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017033214| ISBN 9780415786782 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315226651 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Food security Africa, Southern. | Malnutrition Africa, Southern. | Urbanization Africa, Southern. | Nutrition policy Africa, Southern.
Classification: LCC HD9017.A3562 F67 2018 | DDC 363.80968--dc23
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Contents
JONATHAN CRUSH, BRUCE FRAYNE AND CAMERON MCCORDIC
GARETH HAYSOM
CAMERON MCCORDIC AND BRUCE FRAYNE
BRUCE FRAYNE AND JONATHAN CRUSH
ABEL CHIKANDA, JONATHAN CRUSH AND BRUCE FRAYNE
GARETH HAYSOM AND ISSAHAKA FUSEINI
LIAM RILEY AND ALEXANDER LEGWEGOH
JONATHAN CRUSH, ALICE HOVORKA AND DANIEL TEVERA
BRUCE FRAYNE, JONATHAN CRUSH AND MILLA MCLACHLAN
MARY CAESAR AND JONATHAN CRUSH
CAMERON MCCORDIC AND BRUCE FRAYNE
JONATHAN CRUSH AND BRUCE FRAYNE
JONATHAN CRUSH, BRUCE FRAYNE AND CAMERON MCCORDIC
Mary Caesar is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Hungry Cities Partnership at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Her research interests include public health, food security, local governance and gender with a geographic focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Her most recent publications include a book chapter (with Jonathan Crush), Food Access and Insecurity in a Supermarket City in Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa edited by Jonathan Crush and Jane Battersby (2017) and a discussion paper (with Liam Riley), Comparing Household Food Security in Cities of the Global South through a Gender Lens.
