Browsing Geography & Environmental Studies by Author "Crush, Jonathan"
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Boon or bane? Urban food security and online food purchasing during the Covid-19 epidemic in Nanjing, China
Liang, Yajia; Zhong, Taiyang; Crush, Jonathan (MDPI, 2022)This paper examines the relationship between the rapid growth of online food purchasing and household food security during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in China using the city of Nanjing as a case study. The ... -
Comprehensive food system planning for urban food security in Nanjing, China
Zhong, Taiyang; Si, Zhenzhong; Crush, Jonathan (MPDI, 2021)Food system planning is important to achieve the goal of “zero hunger” in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2016). However, discussion about comprehensive planning for food security is scarce and ... -
Farming the city: The broken promise of urban agriculture
Crush, Jonathan; Hovorka, A; Tevera, D (Routledge, 2019)Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa ... -
Food security in Southern African cities: the place of urban agriculture
Crush, Jonathan; Hovorka, Alice; Tevera, Daniel (Sage Publications, 2011)Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban ... -
Informal food deserts and household food insecurity in Windhoek, Namibia
Crush, Jonathan; Nickanor, Ndeyapo; Kazembe, Lawrence (MDPI, 2019)nformal settlements in rapidly-growing African cities are urban and peri-urban spaces with high rates of formal unemployment, poverty, poor health outcomes, limited service provision, and chronic food insecurity. Traditional ... -
Living with xenophobia: Zimbabwean informal enterprise in South Africa
Crush, Jonathan; Tawodzera, Godfrey; Tevera, Daniel (Southern African Migration Programme, 2017)South Africa’s crisis of xenophobia is defined by the discrimination and intolerance to which migrants are exposed on a daily basis. A major target of the country’s extreme xenophobia – defined as a heightened form of ... -
Migration, rural–urban connectivity, and food remittances in Kenya
Onyango, Elizabeth Opiyo; Crush, Jonathan; Owuor, Samuel (MPDI, 2021)This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in contemporary Nairobi. The first section of ... -
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and Covid‐19 in Nanjing, China
Crush, Jonathan; Xu, Fei; Zhong, Taiyang (Wiley, 2022-12-08)The COVID‐19 pandemic has issued significant challenges to food systems and the food security of migrants in cities. In China, there have been no studies to date focusing on the food security of migrants during the pandemic. ... -
Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya
Onyango, Elizabeth Opiyo; Crush, Jonathan; Owuor, Samuel (Public Library of Science, 2021)An understanding of the types of shocks that disrupt and negatively impact urban household food security is of critical importance to develop relevant and targeted food security emergency preparedness policies and responses, ... -
Urban food insecurity and the impact of China’s affordable food shop (AFS) program: a case study of Nanjing City
Zhong, Taiyang; Crush, Jonathan; Song, Yaya (Applied Geography, 2023)Food subsidies are widely implemented as part of government policies globally to mitigate food insecurity amongst the urban poor. Subsidies to retail outlets are one a type of supply-side subsidy designed to make food more ...