Jane Battersby
& Vanessa Watson (Eds) (2018). Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in
African Cities. Routledge (Open Access)
Description
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.
