Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Series
• Author: Battersby, Jane.
• TeilnehmendeR: Watson, Vanessa.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2018.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Foreword -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Urbanisation, poverty, food and measurement -- 1 African urbanisation and poverty -- 2 Rural bias and urban food security -- 3 Linking urban food security, urban food systems, poverty, and urbanisation -- 4 Understanding and addressing poverty, labour force, and urbanisation 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 Current urban food governance and planning in Africa -- 7 Contributing yet excluded?: informal food retail in African cities -- 8 Planning and governance of food systems in Kisumu City -- 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 -- Index.