Urban food systems governance and poverty in African cities / [edited by] Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson.

This book presents the findings of an international collaborative research project that aimed to improve our understanding of the connections between urban poverty, food systems, household food security and governance, by focusing on three secondary cities in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Urbanization, poverty, food and measurement -- African urbanization and poverty / -- Muna Shifa and Jackie Borel-Saladin -- Rural bias and urban food security / -- Jonathan Crush and Liam Riley -- Linking urban food security, urban food systems, poverty and urbanization / -- Jane Battersby and Gareth Haysom -- Understanding and addressing poverty, labour force and urbanization data gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa / -- Jackie Borel-Saladin, Muna Shifa and Ann Donald -- Part II: Urban food governance and planning -- Historical urban food governance in Africa: the case of Kenya, c. 1900 to 1950 / -- James Duminy -- Urban food governance and planning in Africa / -- Warren Smit -- Contributing and yet excluded? Informal food retail in African cities / -- Caroline Skinner -- Planning and governance of food systems in Kisumu, Kenya / -- Patrick Odhiambo Hayombe, Fredrick Omondi Owino, and Frankline Awuor Otiende -- Planning and governance of food systems in Kitwe, Zambia: a case study of food retail space / -- Jane Battersby and Francis Muwowo -- Governance of food systems in Epworth, Zimbabwe / -- Easther Chigumira, Godfrey Tawodzera, Oliver Manjengwa, and Idah Mbengo -- Urban food production in Harare, Zimbabwe / -- Percy Toriro -- Part III: Understanding the urban food systems -- Food value chains in Kisumu, Kitwe and Epworth: environmental and social hotspots / -- Lesley Sibanda and Harro von Blottnitz -- The characteristics of the urban food system in Kisumu, Kenya / -- Paul Opiyo and Harun Ogindo -- The characteristics of the urban food system in Kitwe, Zambia: a focus on the retail sector / -- Issahaka Fuseini, Jane Battersby, and Niraj Jain -- The characteristics of the urban food system in Epworth, Zimbabwe / -- Godfrey Tawodzera, Easther Chigumira, Idah Mbengo and Samuel Kusangaya -- Part IV: The state of urban food poverty and its connections to the food system -- Food poverty in Kisumu, Kenya / -- George Godwin Wagah, Nelson Obange, and Harun Ogindo -- Food poverty in Kitwe, Zambia / -- Issahaka Fuseini and Owen Sichone -- Food poverty in Epworth, Zimbabwe / -- Godfrey Tawodzera and Easther Chigumira.