TY - BOOK ID - 33176873 TI - Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities - (Open Access) AU - Battersby, Jane AU - Watson, Vanessa PY - 2018 SN - 1315191199 1138726753 9781351751353 9781315191195 1351751352 9781351751346 1351751344 9781351751339 1351751336 0367587564 PB - Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, DB - UniCat KW - Food security KW - Food supply KW - Poverty KW - Government policy KW - Food control KW - Produce trade KW - Agriculture KW - Single cell proteins KW - Food deserts KW - Food insecurity KW - Insecurity, Food KW - Security, Food KW - Human security KW - Urbanization KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Urban development KW - Urban systems KW - Cities and towns KW - Social history KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban policy KW - Rural-urban migration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33176873 AB - 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. ER -