ABSTRACT
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: https://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
part I|53 pages
Urbanisation, poverty, food and measurement
chapter 4|12 pages
Understanding and addressing poverty, labour force, and urbanisation data gaps in sub-Saharan Africa
part II|86 pages
Urban food governance and planning
chapter 9|13 pages
Planning and governance of food systems in Kitwe, Zambia
part III|54 pages
Understanding the urban food systems
chapter 12|13 pages
Food value chains in Kisumu, Kitwe, and Epworth
chapter 14|13 pages
The characteristics of the urban food system in Kitwe, Zambia
part IV|40 pages
The state of urban food poverty and its connections to the food system