Publications: Book Chapters

2018. In Jane Battersby and Venessa Watson (Eds), Urban Food Governance and Poverty in African Cities, Routledge. Zimbabwe has consistently been affected by severe food problems in the past two decades. While the food challenges for rural households have been well documented, little has been written about the challenges of the urban households, particularly in…

2018. In Jane Battersby and Venessa Watson (Eds), Urban Food Governance and Poverty in African Cities, Routledge. In most sub-Saharan African countries, food insecurity poses a challenge to development. In an era where the urban population is becoming more dominant, the need to ameliorate poverty and food security in cities is becoming more urgent. To…

2018. In Jan Douwe van der Ploeg ed. The New Peasantries: Rural Development in Times of Globalization. New York: Routledge.  The peasant condition consists of a set of dialectical relations between the environment in which peasants have to operate and their actively constructed responses aimed at creating degrees of autonomy in the face of forces that…

2017. In Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas, Vanessa Watson (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South. London: Routledge.  Food insecurity has historically been viewed as predominantly rural in location and hunger-based in manifestation. As such, it has been understood as being largely outside of the realm of urban planning. In recent years there has…

2017. In V. Watson, G. Bhan, S. Srinivas (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South. Routledge, London. The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention…

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. One of the emerging areas of emphasis in the HIV and AIDS research literature concerns the biomedical and social relationships between the pandemic and opportunistic infections such as TB. The interaction between HIV and…

2017. In E. Thomas-Hope, ed., Climate Change and Food Security: Africa and the Caribbean (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 156-171. Global climatic change has resulted in new and unpredictable patterns of precipitation and temperature, the increased frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels. These changes impact all four aspects of food security – availability,…

2017. In: United Cities and Local Government. Fourth Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy. Co-Creating the Urban Future. The Agenda of Metropolises, Cities and Territories. Barcelona: UCLG. This study, which has been carried out by international multi-disciplinary teams and informed the inputs of the local and regional government constituency throughout the Habitat III process,…

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. This chapter reviews the literature that sheds light on the dynamic migration process unfolding in Southern African cities, and the food security situation of migrants, both local and international, relative to their rural households.…

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture…