Food System transformation in the Absence of Food System Planning: The Case of Supermarket and Shopping Mall Retail Expansion in Cape Town, South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Battersby
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Food System ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Food System Planning

Fulfilling the Right to Food for South Africa: Justice, Security, Sovereignty and the Politics of Malnutrition

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-152
Author(s):  
Busiso Helard Moyo ◽  
Anne Marie Thompson Thow
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Right To Food ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

Despite South Africa’s celebrated constitutional commitments that have expanded and deepened South Africa’s commitment to realise socio-economic rights, limited progress in implementing right to food policies stands to compromise the country’s developmental path. If not a deliberate policy choice, the persistence of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms is a deep policy failure.  Food system transformation in South Africa requires addressing wider issues of who controls the food supply, thus influencing the food chain and the food choices of the individual and communities. This paper examines three global rights-based paradigms – ‘food justice’, ‘food security’ and ‘food sovereignty’ – that inform activism on the right to food globally and their relevance to food system change in South Africa; for both fulfilling the right to food and addressing all forms of malnutrition. We conclude that the emerging concept of food sovereignty has important yet largely unexplored possibilities for democratically managing food systems for better health outcomes.

The Hidden History of Food System Planning

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenic Vitiello ◽  
Catherine Brinkley
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
System Planning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Food System Planning

Collaboration and diverse stakeholder participation in food system planning: a case study from Central New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Evan Weissman ◽  
Matthew Potteiger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Central New York ◽  
Food System Planning ◽  
And Function ◽  
Onondaga County

AbstractThe Onondaga County Agriculture Council was created in 2012 to promote and support the county's farms, improve the connections between the county's urban core of Syracuse and the surrounding agricultural areas, and to develop policy to support agricultural production and food system development. In short, the purpose of the Council is to strengthen the Onondaga County food system. This goal, however, is ambiguous and Council members recognized a limited understanding of the current structure and function of the Central New York (CNY) food system. As such, the Council provided support for FoodPlanCNY, a project designed to identify food system assets and opportunities to strengthen the economic opportunities, public health outcomes and environmental sustainability of the CNY food system. This paper reports preliminary findings from this initial effort to engage participatory food system planning in CNY.

scholarly journals Planning for change: Transformation labs for an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Pereira ◽  
Scott Drimie ◽  
Olive Zgambo ◽  
Reinette Biggs
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Transformative Change

AbstractThere has been a call for more participatory processes to feed into urban planning for more resilient food systems. This paper describes a process of knowledge co-production for transforming towards an alternative food system in Cape Town, South Africa. A ‘transformative space’ was created though a T-Lab process involving change-agents advocating for an alternative food system, and was designed to discuss challenges in the local food system from a range of perspectives, in order to co-develop potentially transformative innovations that could feed into government planning. In this paper, we describe and reflect on the T-lab in order to consider whether its design was able to meet its objective: to initiate an experimental phase of coalition-building by diverse actors that could feed into the provincial government’s strategic focus on food and nutrition security. Our findings indicate that T-labs have the potential to be important mechanisms for initiating and sustaining transformative change. They can be complementary to urban planning processes seeking to transform complex social-ecological systems onto more sustainable development pathways. However, as with all experimental co-production processes, there is significant learning and refinement that is necessary to ensure the process can reach its full potential. A key challenge we encountered was how to foster diversity and difference in opinions in the context of significant historical legacies of inequality, whilst simultaneously acting for ‘the common good’ and seeking ways to scale impact across different contexts. The paper concludes with deliberations on the nature of planning and navigating towards systemic transformative change.

Feeding the City

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
gregory alexander donofrio
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Planning Profession ◽  
Urban Markets ◽  
City And Regional Planning ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
Food System Planning ◽  
The City

The food system has, until recently, been conspicuously absent from city and regional planning practice, education, and research. Earlier in the twentieth century, food issues were a central concern of the nascent planning profession. Primary and archival source materials examined for this paper indicate that the planning profession's interest in the sources of food and the efficiency of its route to consumers evolved through three stages. During the height of the City Beautiful movement between 1900 and 1909, planners like Charles Mulford Robinson saw urban markets as public nuisances best eliminated from city centers and residential districts. From 1909 to roughly World War I, planners such as George B. Ford embraced a more scientific approach to researching and addressing food distribution problems. In the interwar period, Clarence Stein and other notable regional planners began to consider the food system in its entirety. The modern food system planning movement is largely unaware of this important early legacy. In conclusion, two possible explanations are offered for why, despite a promising start, the food system failed to become a core discipline within the larger planning profession. Planners' earlier experiences with food industry executives and high-ranking officials of government agricultural agencies may offer meaningful insights into contemporary food system planning challenges and goals.

scholarly journals Planning for food sovereignty in Canada? A comparative case study of two rural communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Lavallée-Picard
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Food System Planning

In Canada, most local-governance level food system planning research has been conducted in larger, often urban communities. However, producers in small rural communities conduct the majority of Canada’s agricultural activities. Using case-study research, this paper documents how the rural communities of Saint-Camille (Québec) and Salt Spring Island (British Columbia) engage in food system planning. By investigating the background, key achievements, barriers and good practices, the case studies inform a comparative analysis of governance planning processes and community led project development. The results suggest an overlap between the community food system planning and the food sovereignty frameworks, a space discerned as food sovereignty planning. 

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