Publications: Book Chapters

Supermarketization’ of Food Supply and Retail: Private Sector Interests and Household Food Security

Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. Drawing on the evidence from an eleven-city survey of food insecurity in Southern Africa conducted by the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), this chapter reviews the current state of knowledge on the expansion…

Beyond AFSUN: Future Directions and Challenges for Urban Household Food Security

Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, Cameron McCordic

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. The thematic analyses presented in each chapter of this book have highlighted the high prevalence of food insecurity and the associated challenges experienced by poor households in Southern African cities. This chapter ties together…

Divorcing Food and Agriculture: Towards an Agenda for Urban Food Security Research

Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne, Cameron McCordic

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. In 1998, building on a decade of path-breaking research on Harare’s urban food system, David W. Smith laid out a global agenda for urban food security research. The conflation of smallholder agriculture with food…

Food Supply and Urban-Rural Links in Southern African Cities

Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. This chapter examines the transfers of food between households as part of the bundle of food security strategies used by food-poor households in Southern African cities. The empirical evidence is drawn from the 11-city…

Nutrition, Disease and Development: Long-wave Impacts of Urban Food Insecurity

Bruce Frayne, Jonathan Crush, Milla McLachlan

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. Sub-Saharan Africa’s rapidly growing cities are facing not only an ‘urbanization of poverty’, but increasingly high levels of food and nutrition insecurity. This chapter draws on existing studies and survey data collected from 11…

Urban Social Protection and Food Systems

Gareth Haysom, Issahaka Fuseini

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. This chapter examines the longer-term development implications for food and nutrition when cash transfer interventions intersect with food system changes taking place, particularly in urban areas where food is predominantly accessed through the market.…

Alternative Food Networks in the Global South

Gareth Haysom

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. This chapter interrogates the dominant interpretations and discourses pertaining to alternative food networks (AFNs), and argues that the sustainability agendas and food-system disruption ethos of Northern AFNs are starkly different from the food-access and…

Untangling Infrastructure Access, Housing Informality and Food Security Among Poor Urban Households in Southern Africa

Cameron McCordic, Bruce Frayne

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. The rapid growth of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa has been accompanied by a boom in informal settlements in these areas. The challenges that informal housing pose to urban planning have been well documented, especially…

Measuring Urban Food Security

Cameron McCordic, Bruce Frayne

2017. In B. Frayne, J. Crush, and C. McCordic (Eds.), Food and nutrition security in Southern African cities. London: Routledge and Earthscan. Establishing accurate, precise, reliable and valid measures of urban food security is an ongoing challenge in development studies. This chapter reviews three USAID food security scales: the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS); the Household…

Africa’s Urban Planning Palimpsests

Sue Parnell

2017. In Hein, C. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Planning History, Routledge, London. The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and…