By Jonathan Crush, Jane Battersby
This publication investigates foodstuff safety and the results of hyper-urbanisation and swift progress of city populations in Africa. by way of a chain of case reports concerning African towns of assorted sizes, it argues that, whereas the idea that of nutrients defense holds price, it should be reconfigured to slot the typical realities and specified trajectory of urbanisation within the zone. The publication is going directly to talk about the city context, the place nutrition lack of confidence is extra an issue of entry and altering intake styles than of inadequate foodstuff creation. In last, it techniques nutrition lack of confidence in Africa as an more and more city challenge that calls for varied responses from these utilized to rural populations.
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The chapter by Benjamin Acquah, Stephen Kapunda and Alexander Legwegoh, demonstrates this very clearly in the case of Gaborone, Botswana. Botswana has one of the most robust and well-managed economies in Africa yet levels of inequality and food insecurity remain stubbornly high. Residents of that city’s food deserts do not enjoy significantly better diets than those living in food deserts in other countries and cities in Africa. The case of Maputo is discussed in the chapter by Inês Raimundo, Jonathan Crush and Wade Pendleton, who show that despite rapid national economic growth, large sectors of the economy remain informal.
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The relationship between positive macro-economic growth and food security in the urban food desert is explored in three of the chapters in this volume. Both Botswana and Mozambique have experienced rapid macro-economic growth over the last two decades and are amongst Africa’s fastest growing economies. Zimbabwe was in the depths of an unprecedented economic crisis in 2008 but began to recover after the dollarization of the economy and the formation of a Unity government. Simply because there is an improvement in national and local economies and food availability, it does not automatically mean that food deserts will be eliminated, however.