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Urban Food Security and Resilience

In: Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context

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  • Gareth Haysom

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Jane Battersby

    (University of Cape Town
    University of Cape Town)

Abstract

The concept of resilience within urban food systems has gained significant academic and policy focus in recent years. This aligns with the increased global awareness of the problem of urban food insecurity, and increased focus on sub-national policies for sustainable development. COVID-19 demonstrated a series of vulnerabilities in the food system and the urban system. Academic work on urban food system resilience is wide ranging, however particular areas of focus dominate, focusing on urban agriculture, localized food systems, resilient city region food systems and the water-energy-food nexus. Renewed interest in resilience policy at the local government level has been amplified by global networks, whose framing of urban food systems resilience is embedded within the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda. Using findings from cities in five African countries, we argue for a re-framing of urban food system resilience that is inclusive of a wider set of factors shaping the form and function of the food system; that the urban system, specifically infrastructure, shapes the functioning of the food system and the ability of consumers to use the food system; and that the agency of urban food system users needs inclusion in understandings of, and efforts to increase, food systems resilience.

Suggested Citation

  • Gareth Haysom & Jane Battersby, 2023. "Urban Food Security and Resilience," Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, in: Christophe Béné & Stephen Devereux (ed.), Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context, chapter 0, pages 355-388, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psachp:978-3-031-23535-1_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23535-1_11
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