Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

Battersby, Jane; Watson, Vanessa

doi:10.4324/9781315191195

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“…Research investigating three secondary cities of Zambia, Kenya and Zimbabwe notes similar credit-based food sources. (82) Borrowing food on credit in the absence of cash is of course also a strategy for accessing food, but the food source (and the credit) in my sample was the neighbourhood shop. This is one reason that large supermarkets have not made inroads into Mbale and Mbarara interviewees' lives.…”

Section: B Similar Food Sourcesmentioning

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Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities: an intersectional analysis

Mackay¹

2019

Environment and Urbanization

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This article arises from an interest in African urbanization and in the food, farming and nutritional transitions that some scholars present as integral to urban life. The paper investigates personal urban food environments, food sources and access strategies in two secondary Ugandan cities, Mbale and Mbarara, drawing on in-depth interviews and applying an intersectional lens. Food sources were similar across dimensions of difference but food access strategies varied. My findings indicate that socioeconomic circumstance (class) was the most salient influence shaping differences in daily food access strategies. Socioeconomic status, in turn, interacted with other identity aspects, an individual’s asset base and broader structural inequalities in influencing urban food environments. Rural land and rural connections, or multispatiality, were also important for food-secure urban lives. The work illuminates geometries of advantage and disadvantage within secondary cities, and highlights similarities and differences between food environments in these cities and Uganda’s capital, Kampala.

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Section: B Similar Food Sourcesmentioning

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Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities: an intersectional analysis

Mackay¹

2019

Environment and Urbanization

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“…Effective FSN governance also requires coordination across different sectors. This often means implementing programmes that involve departments of agriculture, health, welfare, environment and human development (Battersby and Watson, 2019). This need for coordination has become ever more evident as the intersection of food systems with biodiversity and climate change have become major themes in recent global assessments such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystems (IPBES, 2019) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2019).…”

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Theoretical and methodological aspects of ensuring the sustainable development of agro-food systems

Kadomtseva¹

2022

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This report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) has been approved by the HLPE Steering Committee.The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Committee on World Food Security, of its members, participants, or of the Secretariat. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by the HLPE in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. This report is made publicly available and its reproduction and dissemination is encouraged. Noncommercial uses will be authorized free of charge, upon request. Reproduction for resale or other commercial purposes, including educational purposes, may incur fees.

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“…In some contexts, such as China, city regions now have specific boundaries and dedicated governance systems (Wu, 2016) but more often they are functional and relational, focused-for purposes of this paper-on the food system (FAO RUAF Foundation, 2015; Karg et al, 2016; but see also Battersby and Watson, 2018). This does not imply that all foods can or must be produced locally; some mid-to long-distance transport of produce requiring larger areas for cultivation or different agro-ecological conditions will probably remain necessary.…”

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Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: Toward more resilient cities in the Global South

Prain¹,

Simon²,

Halliday³

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is widely distributed throughout the Global South. Despite urban population growth and diversifying food habits, UPA delivers an important part of urban food supply, as well as other types of services to cities, such as employment and waste reuse. Nevertheless, the extent and importance of UPA varies between different urban areas, while challenges like limited recognition, land conversion, and water pollution and competition threaten the potential of UPA to contribute to urban resilience. Key investment priorities for research and innovation for overcoming current challenges include incentivized peri-urban zoning, urban allocation of productive lands, and increasing capacities for controlled environment agriculture (CEA). Innovative repositioning of food marketing can help to strengthen supply of healthy food from UPA production, increase decent employment, and turn food markets into nutrition hubs. Priority innovations for contributing to the circular bioeconomy of cities include scaling the safe use of wastewater for irrigation through investments in the adoption of multiple risk-barrier approaches and scaling UPA-based ecosystem services for valorising solid waste and environmental management. Innovations in urban governance are required to support these processes by bringing food systems into urban planning through food mapping and the multisectoral platforms for dialogue and policy formulation across city regions and with vertical levels of government.

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Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

Cited by 57 publications

References 129 publications

Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities: an intersectional analysis

Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities: an intersectional analysis

Theoretical and methodological aspects of ensuring the sustainable development of agro-food systems

Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: Toward more resilient cities in the Global South

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