Publications: Book Chapters

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…