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.
The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Carole Rakodi
Introduction
PART I: URBANIZATION, POVERTY, FOOD AND MEASUREMENT
1. African urbanization and poverty
Muna Shifa and Jackie Borel-Saladin
2. Rural bias and urban food security
Jonathan Crush and Liam Riley
3. Linking urban food security, urban food systems, poverty and urbanization
Jane Battersby and Gareth Haysom
4. Understanding and addressing poverty, labour force and urbanization data gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jackie Borel-Saladin, Muna Shifa and Ann Donald
PART II: URBAN FOOD GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING
5. Historical Urban Food Governance in Africa: The Case of Kenya, c. 1900 to 1950
James Duminy
6. Urban food governance and planning in Africa
Warren Smit
7. Contributing and yet excluded? Informal food retail in African cities
Caroline Skinner
8. Planning and Governance of Food Systems in Kisumu, Kenya
Patrick Odhiambo Hayombe, Fredrick Omondi Owino, and Frankline Awuor Otiende
9. Planning and Governance of Food Systems in Kitwe, Zambia: a case study of food retail space
Jane Battersby and Francis Muwowo
10. Governance of Food Systems in Epworth, Zimbabwe
Easther Chigumira, Godfrey Tawodzera, Oliver Manjengwa, and Idah Mbengo
11. Urban food production in Harare, Zimbabwe
Percy Toriro
PART III: UNDERSTANDING THE URBAN FOOD SYSTEMS
12. Food value chains in Kisumu, Kitwe and Epworth: Environmental and Social Hotspots
Lesley Sibanda and Harro von Blottnitz
13. The characteristics of the urban food system in Kisumu, Kenya
Paul Opiyo and Harun Ogindo
14. The characteristics of the urban food system in Kitwe, Zambia: A focus on the retail sector
Issahaka Fuseini, Jane Battersby, and Niraj Jain
15. The characteristics of the urban food system in Epworth, Zimbabwe
Godfrey Tawodzera, Easther Chigumira, Idah Mbengo and Samuel Kusangaya
PART IV: THE STATE OF URBAN FOOD POVERTY AND ITS CONNECTIONS TO THE FOOD SYSTEM
16. Food poverty in Kisumu, Kenya
George Godwin Wagah, Nelson Obange, and Harun Ogindo
17. Food poverty in Kitwe, Zambia
Issahaka Fuseini and Owen Sichone
18. Food poverty in Epworth, Zimbabwe
Godfrey Tawodzera and Easther Chigumira
