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- the first collection to reflect and compile the currently
dispersed histories, concepts and practices involved in the
increasingly popular field of urban food governance - contains
chapters written by emerging and established scholars, as well as
practitioners, the handbook provides a global, diverse and state of
the art, examination the role of cities in delivering
sustainability and food security outcomes - provides theoretical
and practical tools to understand and transform urban food
governance to enact more sustainable and just futures - will be
essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners and
policymakers interested in food governance, urban studies and
sustainable development more broadly
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.
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.
Organic agriculture world-wide allows farmers to produce healthy
food with low levels of external inputs, and often shortens the
value chains, giving farmers a higher share of the consumer dollar.
This book reports on long-term comparative organic farming systems
research trials carried out over the last four years in South
Africa's Southern Cape, as well as research on the organic sector
and the technical tools it requires in South Africa, Zambia, Uganda
and Tanzania. The trials show how the yield gap between organic and
conventional crops was closed over 3 years. Water use efficiency
was also greater in the organic farming system, and pests and
diseases were effectively controlled using biological products.
Farmer training approaches, soil carbon analysis, participatory
guarantee systems, the Zambian organic farming sector (agronomy)
and Ugandan organic farmer training support, and a sector plan for
southern African organic farming are examined.
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