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.
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 ...
Considerable attention has been devoted to the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on small farmers and the food security of the rural poor. Despite the rapid progression of the epidemic in rural area ...
Optimism about the role of household food production (urban agriculture) in improving the food security of the urban poor has given way to pessimism and even scepticism. This paper critically examines ...
As in many parts of the world, supermarket expansion and control of food supply chains is having a major impact on the quality, quantity and price of food available to urban residents. Growing numbers ...
The number of people living in urban areas is rising rapidly in Southern Africa. By mid-century, the region is expected to be 60% urban. Rapid urbanization is leading to growing food insecurity in the ...
