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Farming the city: The broken promise of urban agriculture
(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 ...
Informal food deserts and household food insecurity in Windhoek, Namibia
(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 ...
Food security in Southern African cities: the place of urban agriculture
(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 ...
Migration, rural–urban connectivity, and food remittances in Kenya
(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 ...
Comprehensive food system planning for urban food security in Nanjing, China
(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 ...
Boon or bane? Urban food security and online food purchasing during the Covid-19 epidemic in Nanjing, China
(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 ...
Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya
(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, ...
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and Covid‐19 in Nanjing, China
(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. ...
Urban food insecurity and the impact of China’s affordable food shop (AFS) program: a case study of Nanjing City
(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 ...
The nanjing model: comprehensive food system governance, localization and urban food security in China
(Elsevier B.V., 2023)
Food supply localization has been extensively studied and advocated in North America and Europe, focusing on its oppositional stance to food system globalization, long food supply chains, the disconnect between producers ...