期刊
FOOD POLICY
卷 74, 期 -, 页码 117-125出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.12.001
关键词
Food security; Food security measurement; Global South; Urban; Urban food system; Food security assessment
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
- UK Department for International Development [ES/L008610/1]
- Hungry Cities Partnership - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - Canada
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - Canada
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/L008610/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/L008610/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The understanding of food security has seen major shifts since the original conceptualisations of the challenge. These changes in understanding have been accompanied by different food security measurement approaches. Despite the fact that the world has become increasingly urbanised and the developing world in particular, is experiencing its own urban transition, changes in food security measurement remain predominantly informed by a rural understanding of food security. In instances where urban measurement does take place, rural-oriented measurement approaches are adopted, occluding critical urban challenges and systemic drivers. This paper begins by highlighting the urban transition and attendant food security challenges in the Global South. It then reflects on existing food security measurement methods, detailing the positive components but also highlighting the shortfalls applicable to the urban context. At the urban scale, a food system assessment is argued to be one appropriate tool to respond to urban food insecurity while at the same time providing both the breadth and depth to inform effective food security programming and policy interventions. Theoretically, questions of scale, context and a critique of the rural bias in food systems work are essential informants guiding the approaches applied.
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