scholarly journals Cities, Poverty and Food: The role of municipalities in enhancing food security

2021 ◽  
Vol XXII (2021) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Adrino Mazenda ◽  
Tinashe Mushayanyama ◽  
Tyanai Masiya ◽  
Moreblessing Simawu
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Urban Food Security ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
The City

Food security is an critical issue in most African cities. Local government initiatives such as the City of Johannesburg Food Resilience Strategy are established to enhance food security in the city. The article draws insight from literature across multiple disciplines to examine the extent to which the Food Resilience Strategy relates food security to the economic challenges which citizens face. It discusses critical themes for sustainable urban food security namely, skills capacity and knowledge transference, access to land and water, institutional challenges, economic factors, urban agriculture production and environmental factors. Finally, the article recommends an integration of diverse stakeholders in the design and implementation of the Food Resilience Strategy, and thereby foster synergies between local producers and the local food market.

The role of the urban agriculture on food security during armed conflicts in the Gaza Strip

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-503
Author(s):  
Hadi Khalil, MA ◽  
Husam Al Najar, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
The Gaza Strip

This study aims to assess the potential of urban agriculture to secure daily needs during the armed conflicts, in addition to assess the contribution of urban agriculture in alleviating poverty level and unemployment rate for its practitioners. A combination of both quantitative and qualitative research methods was employed in this study. In the quantitative design, 129 randomly selected urban farmers from the area of the survey completed the self-administered close-ended questionnaires, whereas the statistical analysis presents the socio-demographic, economic, and other aspects of the households. The qualitative data collection included interviews with six governmental and nongovernmental officials.The results show that 89.2 percent of the urban agriculture practitioners are feeling food security. However, a small percentage of the households who practice urban agriculture are still experiencing difficulties with food security. In the meantime, the armed conflict forced most of the urban farmers to evacuate their homes or lands; thus, only 34.9 percent of urban farmers managed to gain food during the 2014 armed conflict.In a nutshell, urban agriculture significantly and positively contributes to alleviating household food insecurity in the study area. However, its role was very limited during the 2014 armed conflict.

19. Latin America

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Oelsner ◽  
Mervyn Bain
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Institutional Challenges

This chapter examines the main features of the undemocratic regimes that were in power in Latin America from the late 1960s, along with the democratization processes that followed since the 1980s. The nature of the non-democratic governments varied throughout the region, and consequently the types of transition and the quality of the resulting democracy varied as well. The chapter focuses on four cases that reflect these differences: Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. For each country, the chapter reviews a number of dimensions that have been relevant in the democratization processes: the historical and international contexts, the role of economic factors, political culture and society, political parties and social movements, and the institutional challenges that still lie ahead.

scholarly journals Urban Agriculture Spaces in Built Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawaa Fawzi Naom ◽  
Fatima fouad Yaseen
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Spatial Properties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The City

The research had taken the concept of urban agriculture as one of the concepts that appeared within the sustainable trends in the city, and because of limited green areas, popular growth, and ongoing neglect to the urban landscape in cities. Moreover, in order to get the essential role of urban agriculture in the city, it requested the need for research in this concept.Therefore, the research problem appeared, as a knowledge need to explore the urban agriculture concept and its applying ability in order to avoid ongoing neglecting of urban landscape in the city.In order to solve the research problem, a previous literature review had been at the origin of the concept, reached to the most important vocabulary and indicators related to the special properties and the multi-use activity of the urban agriculture spaces of the city. Then the research examined the hypotheses, by a destructive and analytic study for urban agriculture projects.The results showed the connection of achieving urban agriculture within city landscape, by the contextual linking as the main characteristics, also the social and cultural uses as the most important use achieved by the presence of urban agriculture in the city landscape.Finally it had been reached to a theoretical model for urban agriculture in the city landscape.Key Words: Urban Agriculture, Landscape, spatial properties, multi-uses.

Extent of urban agriculture and food security: evidence from Ghana and India

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-455
Author(s):  
Richard Kwasi Bannor ◽  
Mohit Sharma ◽  
Helena Oppong-Kyeremeh
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Seemingly Unrelated Regression ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Urban Food Security ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Unrelated Regression ◽  
Agriculture And Food

PurposeThe study attempted to assess the food security status of urban agriculture households in Ghana and India. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation and its effect on food security in Ghana and India were examined.Design/methodology/approachA total of 650 urban agriculture farmers were interviewed for this study in Ghana and India. Food security status of urban households was assessed by the use of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, whereas the determinants of the extent of urban agriculture and its effect on food security were analysed by the use of the heteroskedastic linear regression and the Seemingly Unrelated Regression models, respectively.FindingsFrom the study on average, households in Ghana were mildly food insecure, but that of India was moderately food insecure. The results further revealed that various demographic, economic, institutional and health and nutrition factors differently influenced urban food security and urban agriculture. Also, the extent of urban agriculture participation positively influenced food security.Originality/valueSeveral studies in Asia (India) and Africa (Ghana) on urban food security have been geographically limited to New Delhi, Mumbai and Greater Accra, with few studies in the Middle Belt of Ghana, and Bihar in India. Besides, there is a limited, rigorous, empirical study on the effect of the extent of UA on food security in Asia (India) and Africa (Ghana) individually and together. Moreover, we extend the frontiers of the methodological approach by applying the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model to understand if the factors that affect food-security accessibility based on two food security accessibility tools are correlated.

20. Latin America

2018 ◽  
pp. 305-321
Author(s):  
Andrea Oelsner ◽  
Mervyn Bain
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Institutional Challenges

This chapter examines the main features of the undemocratic regimes that were in power in Latin America from the late 1960s, along with the democratization processes that followed since the 1980s. The nature of the non-democratic governments varied throughout the region, and consequently the types of transition and the quality of the resulting democracy varied as well. The chapter focuses on four cases that reflect these differences: Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. For each country, the chapter reviews a number of dimensions that have been relevant in the democratization processes: the historical and international contexts, the role of economic factors, political culture and society, political parties and social movements, and the institutional challenges that still lie ahead.

Eastern Market Corporation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Carmody
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Dan Carmody is President of Detroit’s Eastern Market Corporation. In this interview chapter, he discusses the history of the market and why it is important to food access in the city of Detroit today. He explains the visions and aims of the Eastern Market Corporation and how and why it came into existence. The corporation, a not-for-profit, public-private partnership, started in 2006. Carmody discusses the role of urban agriculture in Detroit as well as the new wave of gentrification which has the potential to significantly impact the Market in the future.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impacts of Urban Sprawl on Suburban Villages in the Bamenda Metropolitan Periphery, North West Cameroon

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. p87
Author(s):  
Eleno Manka’a FUBE
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Urban Food Security ◽  
North West ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Landsat Satellite ◽  
The City

Man has been and remains mobile, conquering and impacting every space he occupies. Man’s impact on space has been more accentuated since the 20th century than erstwhile in history, owing to demographic explosion and more advanced technological innovations. Urban space and adjoining lands are impacted most compared to the rural milieu. This study examines the ramifications of rapid and disordered urbanisation on peripheral villages to the city of Bamenda. This is crucial in understanding the threats and consequences of the phenomenon of unending urbanisation on contiguous agricultural land. The trend of urbanisation and resultant impacts were ascertained by analysing data drawn from national census figures, LANDSAT satellite images and suitable field surveys. Analyses revealed that a growth of 14.6% of the population between 1973 and 2018 produced a corresponding sprawl of 97.54% of the spatial extent of Bamenda metropolis, which presently covers 40.96 times the spatial area it occupied in 1973. This has grave repercussions for contiguous agricultural land and urban food security. The paper posits that a scrupulous compliance with existing urban master plans and implementation of carefully designed policies to protect agricultural land are inevitable in checking urban growth and its induced effects; and guaranteeing urban food security.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SPHERE IN THE CONTEXT OF FOOD SECURITY

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Volodymyrivna Derii Zhanna ◽  
Vasylovych Koval Viktor ◽  
Oleksandrivna Sedikova Iryna
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Population Reduction ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Access To Food

The importance of food security in the world countries is explored. The food security of the country is characterized by the stability, efficiency and stability of the agro-industrial complex and its ability to respond promptly to changes in demand and supply in the food market; level of transitional grain stocks; solvency of the population, in order to ensure equal access to food for all segments of the population; reduction of import dependence

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