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JOURNAL OF HUNGER & ENVIRONMENTAL NUTRITION
Volume 7, Issue 2-3, Pages 271-292Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2012.702448
Keywords
urban; food security; southern Africa; poverty; hunger; supermarkets; informal food economy
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- Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through University Partners in Cooperation and Development (UPCD)
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Rapid urbanization and increasing urban poverty are shifting the historical locus of food insecurity from the rural areas to the cities of Africa. This article uses data from the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) baseline survey carried out in 11 cities in 9 southern African countries in 2008-2009 to demonstrate the existence of extremely high levels of urban food insecurity. The lack of access to food is primarily the result of household poverty, high unemployment, and limited income-generating opportunities rather than any absolute food shortages. The article also shows the growing importance of supermarkets, and the relative insignificance of urban agriculture in the food sourcing strategies of the urban poor.
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