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The 2008 Food Summit: A political response to the food price crisis in Gauteng province, South Africa

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In responding to food price riots and other unrest in 2008, Gauteng province in South Africa hosted a two-day Food Summit attended by 4000 delegates. Summit invitees expected to be consulted on issues of concern about food prices, but the government instead responded with the message that the poor must be self-sufficient and grow their own food (via the Ilima/Letsema campaign launch), an impractical suggestion in a crisis. The timing of the 2008 Summit in relation to major changes within the African National Congress and the looming 2009 national election in South Africa leads to a conclusion that the Summit was a political event designed to build political capital ahead of the elections, rather than a genuine stakeholder consultation event linked to food security. Findings of this study indicated that food security planning in Gauteng is exclusionary through its rural bias and excludes, for example, urban dwellers and foreign migrants. Also, at that time, Gauteng would have been underprepared for a genuine food emergency as there was no working provincial strategy to deal with urban food security or a severe food crisis.

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  • Susan Jean Taylor, 2013. "The 2008 Food Summit: A political response to the food price crisis in Gauteng province, South Africa," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(6), pages 760-770, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:30:y:2013:i:6:p:760-770
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.860015
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