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The Hungry Cities Partnership Report No. 3, The Urban Food System of Cape Town, South Africa, was just posted to the HCP website. It was co-authored by Gareth Haysom, Jonathan Crush and Mary Caesar. In addition to an overview of the demographic, economic and socio-political backgrounds of Cape Town, the report also provides a systematic […]

Following a recent multi-stakeholder workshop in Bellagio on “Harnessing Urban Food Systems for Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being”, the Partnership has lent its support to the Bellagio Communique along with a number of other agencies including UNHABITAT, the World Food Programme, the African Centre for Cities and the RUAF Foundation. A number of HCP researchers

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) and Nanjing University organized a workshop entitled Wet Market and Urban Food System in Nanjing on January 12, 2017 at the School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences of Nanjing University in Nanjing, China. The workshop aimed to disseminate the results of the HCP household food security survey in Nanjing to government

This online course examines how urban sustainability can be delivered: how cities function as systems of systems; how to increase urban productivity, reduce urban poverty and inequality and enable urban inclusion and safety; and protect the urban environment, reduce risk and vulnerability. The course is led and curated by Aromar Revi, Director of the IIHS

The Hungry Cities Partnership participated in Food Secure Canada’s 9th National Assembly on October 14, 2016 at Ryerson University. HCP Associate Director Dr. Bruce Frayne (UW) and HCP Data Manager Dr. Cameron McCordic (BSIA) represented the Hungry Cities Partnership in a session on “Global Perspectives on Sustainable City Region Food Systems.” Dr. Frayne and Dr.

The HCP participated in the World Nutrition Conference at the School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Cape Town from 29 August to 3 September 2016: Jonathan Crush (BSIA) chaired the Symposium on “The Food and Nutrition System We Need”; Jane Battersby (ACC) presented on “Beyond Nutrition: Food as Social, Spatial and Economic Context

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP), African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) and the Consuming Urban Poverties (CUP) research projects convened a workshop entitled Joining the Sustainable Development Goals: Urbanization and Food Security in the Global South in July 2016 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Researchers presented thoughtful and insightful findings on

The Hungry Cities Partnership held a conference at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business on 15 February 2016. It’s summed up here by Emma Broadway for UrbanAfrica.Net: As Africa continues to urbanize at an unprecedented rate, the continent’s cities grow hungrier and hungrier. The crux of this issue lies in urban planning and

Our latest AFSUN policy paper, by Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera, examines the food security status of Zimbabwean migrant households in the poorer areas of two major South African cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The vast majority were food insecure in terms of the amount of food to which they had access and the quality and

Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner is published by SAMP, ACC and IDRC. This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life