Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Author "Kroll, Florian"
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Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa
Adelle, Camilla; Gorgens, Tristan; Kroll, Florian; Losch, Bruno (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 ... -
Deflating the fallacy of food deserts: Local food geographies in Orange Farm and inner city Johannesburg
Kroll, Florian (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 ... -
Dietary patterns, food insecurity, and their relationships with food sources and social determinants in two small island developing states
Bhagtani, Divya; Augustus, Eden; Kroll, Florian (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 ... -
Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How poor people get food, what they eat, and how this shapes our food system
Kroll, Florian (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 ... -
Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How value-chain consolidation, poverty & cultures of consumption feed each other
Kroll, Florian (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 ... -
Lockdown, resilience and emergency statecraft in the Cape Town food system
Kroll, Florian; Adelle, Camilla (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 ...