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Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to
urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in
Africa will be in urban areas by 2050, with the urban population on
the continent tripling over the next 50 years. The challenge of
building inclusive and sustainable cities in the context of rapid
urbanization is arguably the critical development issue of the 21st
Century and creating food secure cities is key to promoting health,
prosperity, equity, and ecological sustainability. The expansion of
Africa's urban population is taking place largely in secondary
cities: these are broadly defined as cities with fewer than half a
million people that are not national political or economic centres.
The implications of secondary urbanization have recently been
described by the Cities Alliance as "a real knowledge gap",
requiring much additional research not least because it poses new
intellectual challenges for academic researchers and governance
challenges for policy-makers. International researchers coming from
multiple points of view including food studies, urban studies, and
sustainability studies, are starting to heed the call for further
research into the implications for food security of rapidly growing
secondary cities in Africa. This book will combine this research
and feature comparable case studies, intersecting trends, and shed
light on broad concepts including governance, sustainability,
health, economic development, and inclusivity. This is an open
access book.
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