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HCP Report on Cape Town cited by The Guardian newspaper in an article entitled “Is South Africa’s Most Fertile Farmland Under Threat from Developers?”  The newspaper’s series on Cities discusses the struggle between developers and local farmers and NGOs over land use in the Philippi Horticultural Area which supplies the city’s poor with cheap vegetables.  […]

HCP Nanjing University research team publishes article in Food Security on the hybrid public-private food provisioning system in Nanjing, China.  

HCP QE Scholar Lovemore Itai Zuze presents his research on food security in Mzuzu, Malawi to researchers at Balsillie School of International Affairs. The title of his presentation is “Food Security in Africa’s Secondary Cities: No. 2 Mzuzu, Malawi”.   

HCP QE Scholar Robert Kinlocke presents his research on informal food retail in Kingston, Jamaica to researchers at Balsillie School of International Affairs. The title of his presentation is “Planning for the Precariously Placed: An Examination of Exclusion, Governance and the Sustainability of Informal Food Retail in Kingston, Jamaica”.

Themes of the two days conference include: urban food systems urban food production and marketing vulnerability and resilience in sustaining food security the politics of food, food policy and governance knowledge systems and technology in achieving food security migration, rural-Urban linkages in food security urban and rural livelihoods and food security/insecurity gender, age, nutrition and

Background: It has been theorised that there are a network of relationships linking the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), whereby achieving one SDG may have spillover effects for other SDGs. This discussion is relevant to the multidimensional stressors experienced by poor urban households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: We evaluate whether variations in the gender of a household head

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