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Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this
book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the
development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to
address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale
farmers, to the exclusion of broader socio-economic and
infrastructural approaches, are misplaced and will remain largely
ineffective in ameliorating food and nutrition insecurity for the
majority of Africans. Using original data from the African Food
Security Urban Network's (AFSUN) extensive database it is
demonstrated that the primary food security challenge for urban
households is access to food. Already linked into global food
systems and value chains, Africa's supply of food is not
necessarily in jeopardy. Rather, the widespread poverty and
informal urban fabric that characterizes Africa's emerging cities
impinge directly on households' capacity to access food that is
readily available. Through the analysis of empirical data collected
from 6,500 households in eleven cities in nine countries in
Southern Africa, the authors identify the complexity of factors and
dynamics that create the circumstances of widespread food and
nutrition insecurity under which urban citizens live. They also
provide useful policy approaches to address these conditions that
currently thwart the latent development potential of Africa's
expanding urban population.
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