Zhenzhong Si

HCP publishes Special Issue on “Urban Food Deserts: Perspectives from the Global South” in the journal Sustainability, guest edited by Jonathan Crush and Zhenzhong Si. The industrialization of the urban food system, alongside the proliferation of supermarkets, has dramatically transformed the landscape of food accessibility in cities. In many countries, especially the US, the spatial consolidation […]

The QES-AS Projects Workshop was held in Toronto on May 22 and 23, 2019 at Ryerson University in Toronto. Professor Jonathan Crush and QE scholars with the HCP, including Drs. Mary Caesar, Robert Kinlocke and Zhenzhong Si, attended the workshop on May 22. The workshop was titled “Strengthening partnerships and collaboration across QES-AS projects“. The

HCP convenes participatory forum on the informal food sector in Mexico City in partnership with WIEGO Mexico.  The forum was led by Salomon Gonzalez from HCP partner UAM and was attended by representatives of street trader organizations. municipal officials, HCP and WIEGO. In a simulation exercise, participants gave their advice to a fictitious new migrant

QES Scholar Zhenzhong Si co-authors HCP Discussion Paper No. 24: Achieving Urban Food Security through a Public-Private Hybrid Food Provisioning System: A Case Study of Nanjing, China with Dr Taiyang Zhong of Nanjing University. The paper examines how the public-private hybrid model of food markets and its governance ensures a relatively high-level urban food security

In a February 20 op-ed published in Business Day, Hungry Cities Partnership director Jonathan Crush says supermarkets may be making more food available, but they are not making it more accessible, or accessible enough, to improve food security. Read the full article here: https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-02-20-the-growing-role-of-supermarkets-in-africas-food-security/ In another recent op-ed, published by the Daily Maverick on January 30, Prof Crush says

Godfrey Tawodzera of the African Centre for Cities at University of Cape Town and a Hungry Cities Partnership QE Scholar at Wilfrid Laurier University authors paper on the informal food sector in Cape Town. The paper was published on the Hungry Cities website as HCP Discussion Paper No. 23: Food Vending and the Urban Informal

Zhenzhong Si, QE Scholar with the Hungry Cities Partnership, publishes a book “Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives” coauthored with Steffanie Scott, Theresa Schumilas and Aijuan Chen. This book shows how a set of social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions have converged to shape the development of a “formal” organic

Inȇs Raimundo, Hungry Cities Partnership Coordinator in Maputo in Mozambique, is attending the 2018 Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Global Summit on Food Security & Thriving Communities in Atlanta from November 27th until 2nd December 2018. Through this Summit,  fellows will be preparing for the African Summit on Food Security that will take place next year in Johannesburg.  The