In partnership with Queens University, ACC supports a research project that explores urban food security in eleven Southern African cities. The project seeks to uncover new data and develop appropriate policy responses to this vexed challenge in partnership with local actors.
There has been growing interest in the use of urban agriculture to address food insecurity and poverty in Cape Town. This reflects debates on urban agriculture in the global south. In the North, growi ...
Nov 26, 2012 — Cape Town
Global and regional discussions about the relationship between migration and development cover a broad range of policy issues but strikingly absent from these discussions is any systematic reflection ...
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the field is current- ly under-researched and under-theorized. Urban food insecurity, where it is considered, ...
The African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), a project within the African Centre for Cities, led a research project initiated by Rooftops Canada - Abri International, undertaken with the financial ...
The ACC welcomes Dr Chileshe Leonard MULENGA, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic and Social Research (formerly the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for Social Research) of the University ...
In most African cities, there is sufficient food to feed everyone and considerable wastage of fresh and processed foodstuffs. Poor households are food insecure because they cannot afford to purchase e ...
