Title Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (174 p.) Series Critical Food Studies Critical food studies. Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Why food sovereignty in the city matters now -- Confronting the dominant agri-food system -- Urban agriculture, exclusion, and calls for food sovereignty -- Analytical framework: critical urban food perspective -- Research approach -- Overview of the book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Rethinking South Africa's agri-food system: Notions of food sovereignty and urban agriculture -- South Africa's commercialised agri-food system Food sovereignty in discourse: roots, actors, and challenges -- Initial challenges -- Incipient attempts towards food sovereignty -- Further endeavours and urban issues -- Notions of urban agriculture and introduction of the case study -- Kos en Fynbos -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Exposing marginalisation: Food and farming in the city -- Initial mobilisation -- Socio-economic backgrounds -- Different types of urban agriculture and microhistories -- Blanco -- Pacaltsdorp -- Thembalethu -- Organisation and cooperation -- Garden Route Botanical Garden -- George Herald George Municipality -- Local Economic Development Unit -- Landmark Foundation -- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, George Campus, Saasveld -- Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) in the Eden region -- Further actors: "moral supporters" and other donors -- Critical reflection of the prevailing nutrition landscape -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Proposing food sovereignty -- Local access to nutritious food -- Valuing food providers -- Farmer Support and Development Unit -- Local Economic Development Unit Unemployment and market access: the role of the informal sector -- Access to land -- Community knowledge and skills -- Biodiversity and connection to nature -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Politicising alternatives from below -- Uncovering political dimensions and rights to the city -- Growing food sovereignty across the rural-urban divide -- Creating changes within and beyond the existing system -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Urban South Africa and beyond -- Critical urban food perspective Lived realities of food producers at the urban margins -- Political dimensions and food producers' agency -- Trajectories of food sovereignty and alliances -- References -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Food sovereignty -- South Africa -- George Food sovereignty South Africa -- George Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000608922 1000608921 9781032022697 1032022698 9781003182634 1003182631

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