Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture - Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa (Hardcover)

This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including insufficient food access and disastrous land dispossessions. This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by engaging with food sovereignty discourses and movements in urban areas. Related activism of urban food producers in the Global South remains underrepresented in practice and in literature. Therefore, this book engages with the lived realities of an urban agriculture initiative in George, South Africa. Building on theoretical notions of the "right to the city" and "everyday forms of resistance", the book illuminates how deprived food producers expose inequalities and propose alternatives. The findings of in-depth empirical research reveal that dwellers perceive farming as a mean to overcome historical segregation, high food prices, and unhealthy nutrition. Hence, they breathe life into food sovereignty in practice and suggest further alliances beyond the city. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of alternative food politics, agrarian transformation, and food movements as well as rural-urban intersections.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Critical Food Studies
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Anne Siebert
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-202269-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Promotions
LSN:	1-03-202269-8
Barcode:	9781032022697

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