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Jonathan Crush · Jane Battersby E ditors Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa Jonathan Crush Jane Battersby (cid:129) Editors Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa 123 Editors JonathanCrush JaneBattersby International Migration ResearchCentre African Centrefor Cities Balsillie Schoolof International Affairs University of Cape Town Waterloo, ON Rondebosch,Cape Town Canada SouthAfrica ISBN978-3-319-43566-4 ISBN978-3-319-43567-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43567-1 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016947738 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2016 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerland Acknowledgements The editors would like to thank the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for its financial support of the Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) through the International Partnership for Sustainable Societies (IPaSS) Program. We also acknowledge the support of a publication grant from the Balsillie School of International Affairs. v Contents 1 The Making of Urban Food Deserts .... .... .... .... ..... .... 1 Jane Battersby and Jonathan Crush 2 The Mythology of Urban Agriculture ... .... .... .... ..... .... 19 Bruce Frayne, Cameron McCordic and Helena Shilomboleni 3 The Spatial Logic of Supermarket Expansion and Food Access ... 33 Jane Battersby and Stephen Peyton 4 Food Access and Insecurity in a Supermarket City .... ..... .... 47 Mary Caesar and Jonathan Crush 5 Rapid Economic Growth and Urban Food Insecurity .. ..... .... 59 Benjamin Acquah, Stephen Kapunda and Alexander Legwegoh 6 Food Insecurity, Poverty and Informality.... .... .... ..... .... 71 Inês Raimundo, Jonathan Crush and Wade Pendleton 7 Food Insecurity in a State in Crisis. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 85 Godfrey Tawodzera 8 Poverty and Uneven Food Security in Urban Slums.... ..... .... 97 ShukriF.Mohamed,BlessingUchennaMberu,DjesikaD.Amendah, Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage, Remare Ettarh, Lilly Schofield, Thaddeus Egondi, Frederick Wekesah and Catherine Kyobutungi 9 Gender, Mobility and Food Security .... .... .... .... ..... .... 113 Liam Riley and Belinda Dodson 10 Migration, Rural-Urban Linkages and Food Insecurity. ..... .... 127 Ndeyapo Nickanor, Jonathan Crush and Wade Pendleton 11 Wild Food Consumption and Urban Food Security.... ..... .... 143 Lauren Sneyd vii viii Contents 12 Urban Food Insecurity and Social Protection. .... .... ..... .... 157 Daniel Tevera and Nomcebo Simelane 13 Urban Policy Environments and Urban Food Security . ..... .... 169 Andrea M. Brown Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 183 Contributors BenjaminAcquah DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofBotswana,Gaborone, Botswana Djesika D. Amendah Health Challenges and Systems Program, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya JaneBattersby African Centrefor Cities, UniversityofCapeTown, CapeTown, South Africa Andrea M. Brown Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada Mary Caesar Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada Jonathan Crush Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada Belinda Dodson Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada Thaddeus Egondi DNDi Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Remare Ettarh Alberta Innovates—Health Solutions, Edmonton, Canada BruceFrayne SchoolofEnvironment,EnterpriseandDevelopment,Universityof Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada StephenKapunda DepartmentofEconomics,UniversityofBotswana,Gaborone, Botswana ElizabethW.Kimani-Murage HealthChallenges andSystemsProgram,African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Catherine Kyobutungi African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Alexander Legwegoh Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada ix x Contributors Blessing Uchenna Mberu Urbanization and Wellbeing Program, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Cameron McCordic Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada Shukri F. Mohamed Health Challenges and Systems Program, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Ndeyapo Nickanor Faculty of Science, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia Wade Pendleton Cape Town, South Africa Stephen Peyton Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Macalester College, St Paul, MN, USA Inês Raimundo Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique Liam Riley Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada Lilly Schofield Save the Children UK, London, UK Helena Shilomboleni Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada Nomcebo Simelane Department of Geography, Environmental Science and Planning, University of Swaziland, P/B Kwaluseni, Swaziland Lauren Sneyd Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada Godfrey Tawodzera Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa Daniel Tevera Department of Geography, Environmental Studies and Tourism, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Frederick Wekesah African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Abbreviations 3ADI Accelerated Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative ADB African Development Bank AFSUN African Food Security Urban Network AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ALV African Leafy Vegetables AMICAALL Alliance of MayorsInitiativefor Community Action on HIV and AIDS at the Local Level APHRC African Population and Health Research Center BP British Petroleum CBD Central Business District CBOs Community-Based Organisations CFSVA Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis CI Confidence Interval CIGI Centre for International Governance Innovation CRFS City Region Food System CSO Central Statistics Office DPMO Deputy Prime Minister’s Office DSW Social Welfare Department ESAP Economic Structural Adjustment Programme EU European Union FANTA Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FDI Foreign Direct Investment FEWSNET Famine Early Warning Systems Network FTLRP Fast Track Land Reform Programme GDP Gross Domestic Product GIS Geographic Information Systems GNU Government of National Unity GPS Global Positioning Systems HCP Hungry Cities Partnership xi
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