Handbook on urban food security in the Global South
Food security Food supply e-böcker
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
2020
EISBN 9781786431516
Front Matter.
Copyright.
Contents.
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction to urban food security in the Global South.
2. Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts.
3. Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world.
4. An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins.
5. Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity: Trends for low-income and middle-income countries.
6. Scales of (in)action at the climate change-food security nexus in cities.
7. The "supermarket revolution" in the South
8. Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood value chains.
9. Food systems at the rural-urban interface.
10. The urban informal food sector in the Global South.
11. The gender-urban-food interface in theGlobal South.
12. Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries.
13. Urban food security and South-South migration to cities of the Global South.
14. Food remittances and food security.
15. Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the Global South.
16. Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South
17. The planned "city region" in the New Urban Agenda: An appropriate framing for urban food security?.
18. Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South.
19. Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor: Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps.
Index.
Copyright.
Contents.
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction to urban food security in the Global South.
2. Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts.
3. Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world.
4. An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins.
5. Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity: Trends for low-income and middle-income countries.
6. Scales of (in)action at the climate change-food security nexus in cities.
7. The "supermarket revolution" in the South
8. Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood value chains.
9. Food systems at the rural-urban interface.
10. The urban informal food sector in the Global South.
11. The gender-urban-food interface in theGlobal South.
12. Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries.
13. Urban food security and South-South migration to cities of the Global South.
14. Food remittances and food security.
15. Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the Global South.
16. Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South
17. The planned "city region" in the New Urban Agenda: An appropriate framing for urban food security?.
18. Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South.
19. Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor: Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps.
Index.
