Overview
- Addresses the challenge of building inclusive and sustainable cities in the context of rapid urbanization
- Examines implications of secondary urbanization as it poses governance challenges for policy-makers
- Discusses implications for food security of rapidly growing secondary cities in Africa
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This book will combine this research and feature comparable case studies, intersecting trends, and shed light on broad concepts including governance, sustainability, health, economic development, and inclusivity.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Food System Actors, Concepts and Governance
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Food Security, Poverty & Livelihoods
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Environments, Linkages and Mobilities
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jonathan Crush is University Research Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and Professor Extraordinary at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He obtained his first degree at Cambridge University and his M.A. at Laurier and Ph.D. at Queen’s University. He has taught at the National University of Lesotho, the University of Alberta and Queen’s University and has published extensively on African development, migration and food security. He is currently Director of the Hungry Cities Partnership, a global network focused on the governance of urban food systems under conditions of rapid urbanization.
Dr Liam Riley works on several inter-related projects investigating food security and food systems in Africa’s rapidly growing cities. He holds a PhD (2013) and MA (2008) in Geography from Western University in London, Canada and a BA (2003) in East Asian Studies and African Studies from McGill University. Liamheld a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2016) and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2019) at the BSIA at Wilfrid Laurier University where he is currently an Adjunct Faculty member. His work is rooted in fieldwork in Malawi, Cameroon, South Africa, and Botswana that uses a host of qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate gendered household food strategies in urban Africa and the political economic dimensions of urban food security as a development challenge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
Editors: Liam Riley, Jonathan Crush
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93072-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93071-4Published: 03 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93074-5Published: 31 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93072-1Published: 02 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 402
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Public Policy, Sustainable Development, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general