Publications: Book Chapters

The Making of Urban Food Deserts

Jane Battersby and Jonathan Crush

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

Urban Policy Environments and Urban Food Security

Andrea M. Brown

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

Food Access and Insecurity in a Supermarket City

Mary Caesar and Jonathan Crush

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

The Mythology of Urban Agriculture

Bruce Frayne, Cameron McCordic and Helena Shilomboleni

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

Climate Change, Food and the City: Agency and Urban Scale Food System Networks

Gareth Haysom

2016. In Elizabeth Thomas-Hope (ed.) Climate Change and Food Security: Africa and the Caribbean. Routledge. 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, accessibility, stability of supply…

Agroecological Farming and Soil Rehabilitation

Gareth Haysom

2016. In M. Swilling, J. Musango and J. Wakeford (eds), Greening the South African Economy (Cape Town: UCT Press). The depletion of South Africa’s (and in some cases the world’s) natural resources and the degradation of environmental sinks (including the atmosphere, lakes and rivers, and land) are continuing at such a rate that natural resource prices…

Planning, Modernism and the Challenge of Enduring Urban Segregation

Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw

In V. Kaufmann (ed.) Cities in Translation: Interdiscipinarity in Urban Studies (London: Routledge). Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban…

Poverty and Uneven Food Security in Urban Slums

Shukri F. Mohamed, Blessing Uchenna Mberu, Djesika D. Amendah, Elizabeth W. Kimani-Murage, Remare Ettarh, Lilly Scofield, Thaddeus Egondi, Frederick Wekesah and Catherine Kyobutungi

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

Migration, Rural-Urban Linkages and Food Insecurity

Ndeyapo Nickanor, Jonathan Crush and Wade Pendleton

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…

Food Insecurity, Poverty and Informality

Ines Raimundo, Jonathan Crush and Wade Pendleton

2016. In J. Crush and J. Battersby (eds.), Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa (Switzerland: Springer). This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that,…