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Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How poor people get food, what they eat, and how this shapes our food system
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Foodways are the set of strategies shaping what food
people choose as well as how and where they access
and consume it. Informed by culture and social
context, the foodways of the poor simultaneously
respond to and ...
Deflating the fallacy of food deserts: Local food geographies in Orange Farm and inner city Johannesburg
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016-08)
The availability and accessibility of food is constrained by the environments where people live, work and
purchase goods, and the pathways which they use to traverse these. This recognition has given rise to
innovative ...
Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How value-chain consolidation, poverty & cultures of consumption feed each other
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
South African food systems are in a dynamic process of transition due to changes in food value chain
regimes which have major impacts on the poor. However, these transitions are also shaped by demandside
drivers emerging ...
Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Communities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building
on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent ...
Dietary patterns, food insecurity, and their relationships with food sources and social determinants in two small island developing states
(MDPI, 2022)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have high burdens of nutrition-related chronic
diseases. This has been associated with lack of access to adequate and affordable nutritious foods
and increasing reliance on imported ...
Lockdown, resilience and emergency statecraft in the Cape Town food system
(Cities, 2022)
Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, rapidly growing cities of the global South were at the epicenter of multiple converging crises affecting food systems. Globally, government lockdown responses to the disease triggered ...