Climate Change And Food Security In Southern African Cities

Author : Bruce Frayne,Caroline Moser,Gina Ziervogel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136502026

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Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities by Bruce Frayne,Caroline Moser,Gina Ziervogel Pdf

There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might impact on asset accumulation and food security for the urban poor. It demonstrates how these three, often separate foci, can be brought together to frame a holistic urban adaptation approach. Furthermore, although much has been written about climate change, limited evidence exists in southern Africa of how climate change has been integrated in urban planning. The authors explore the urban climate change nexus linking asset adaptation, climate change science and food security through several case study cities. These include Cape Town, George and Khara Hais (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia), Maputo (Mozambique), Mombasa (Kenya) and Harare (Zimbabwe). The results shed light on how this nexus might be explored from different perspectives, both theoretical and practical, in order to plan for a more resilient future. Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities comprises ten chapters which focus on southern African cities, with each chapter written by highly experienced academics, research-focused practitioners and professional planners. Although the book concentrates on southern African cities, the insights which are presented can be used to understand other urban centres in low and middle-income countries outside of this region and around the world.

Author : Gina Ziervogel,Jonathan Scott Crush,Bruce Frayne,African Food Security Urban Network,University of Cape Town. Programme in Urban Food Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1920409726

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Climate Change and Food Security in Southern African Cities by Gina Ziervogel,Jonathan Scott Crush,Bruce Frayne,African Food Security Urban Network,University of Cape Town. Programme in Urban Food Security Pdf

Author : Bruce Frayne,Jonathan Crush,Cameron McCordic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351850773

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Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities by Bruce Frayne,Jonathan Crush,Cameron McCordic Pdf

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on small-scale farmers, to the exclusion of broader socio-economic and infrastructural approaches, are misplaced and will remain largely ineffective in ameliorating food and nutrition insecurity for the majority of Africans. Using original data from the African Food Security Urban Network’s (AFSUN) extensive database it is demonstrated that the primary food security challenge for urban households is access to food. Already linked into global food systems and value chains, Africa’s supply of food is not necessarily in jeopardy. Rather, the widespread poverty and informal urban fabric that characterizes Africa’s emerging cities impinge directly on households’ capacity to access food that is readily available. Through the analysis of empirical data collected from 6,500 households in eleven cities in nine countries in Southern Africa, the authors identify the complexity of factors and dynamics that create the circumstances of widespread food and nutrition insecurity under which urban citizens live. They also provide useful policy approaches to address these conditions that currently thwart the latent development potential of Africa’s expanding urban population.

Author : Abdulai Jalloh,Gerald C. Nelson,Timothy S. Thomas,Robert Bellarmin Zougmoré,Harold Roy-Macauley
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896292048

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West African Agriculture and Climate Change by Abdulai Jalloh,Gerald C. Nelson,Timothy S. Thomas,Robert Bellarmin Zougmoré,Harold Roy-Macauley Pdf

The first of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo -- and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.

Author : Jonathan Crush,Jane Battersby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319435671

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Rapid Urbanisation, Urban Food Deserts and Food Security in Africa by Jonathan Crush,Jane Battersby Pdf

This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds value, it needs to be reconfigured to fit the everyday realities and distinctive trajectory of urbanisation in the region. The book goes on to discuss the urban context, where food insecurity is more a problem of access and changing consumption patterns than of insufficient food production. In closing, it approaches food insecurity in Africa as an increasingly urban problem that requires different responses from those applied to rural populations.

Author : Sepo Hachigonta,Gerald C. Nelson,Timothy S. Thomas,Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896292086

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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change by Sepo Hachigonta,Gerald C. Nelson,Timothy S. Thomas,Lindiwe Majele Sibanda Pdf

Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. Southern Africa’s population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. Southern Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.

Author : Mulala Danny Simatele,Felix Kwabena Donkor,Henry Bikwibili Tantoh
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832524954

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Climate change, land, water and food security: Perspectives from sub-saharan africa by Mulala Danny Simatele,Felix Kwabena Donkor,Henry Bikwibili Tantoh Pdf

Author : Michael Waithaka,Nelson, Gerald C.,Thomas, Timothy S.,Kyotalimye, Miriam
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896292055

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East African Agriculture and Climate Change by Michael Waithaka,Nelson, Gerald C.,Thomas, Timothy S.,Kyotalimye, Miriam Pdf

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda - and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. East Africa's populations is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. East Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer.

Author : Liam Riley,Jonathan Crush
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030930721

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Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa by Liam Riley,Jonathan Crush Pdf

Countries across Africa are rapidly transitioning from rural to urban societies. The UN projects that 60% of people living in Africa will be in urban areas by 2050, with the urban population on the continent tripling over the next 50 years. The challenge of building inclusive and sustainable cities in the context of rapid urbanization is arguably the critical development issue of the 21st Century and creating food secure cities is key to promoting health, prosperity, equity, and ecological sustainability. The expansion of Africa’s urban population is taking place largely in secondary cities: these are broadly defined as cities with fewer than half a million people that are not national political or economic centres. The implications of secondary urbanization have recently been described by the Cities Alliance as “a real knowledge gap”, requiring much additional research not least because it poses new intellectual challenges for academic researchers and governance challenges for policy-makers. International researchers coming from multiple points of view including food studies, urban studies, and sustainability studies, are starting to heed the call for further research into the implications for food security of rapidly growing secondary cities in Africa. This book will combine this research and feature comparable case studies, intersecting trends, and shed light on broad concepts including governance, sustainability, health, economic development, and inclusivity. This is an open access book.

Author : Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Food supply
ISBN : 0796920281

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Food Security and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa by Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini Pdf

Southern Africa experienced acute food shortages during 2002 and 2003.

Author : Rattan Lal,Bal Ram Singh,Dismas L. Mwaseba,David Kraybill,David O. Hansen,Lars Olav Eik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319093604

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Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa by Rattan Lal,Bal Ram Singh,Dismas L. Mwaseba,David Kraybill,David O. Hansen,Lars Olav Eik Pdf

This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference. In addition to Introduction and Conclusion sections, the book is thematically divided into 7 sections, namely, 1) Land Use and Farming Systems, 2) Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield, 3) Soil Nutrient and Water Management for Carbon Sequestration, 4) Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands through Forestry and Agroforestry, 5) Management of Animal Production for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 6) Smallholder Adaptation to Climate Change, and 7) Economic, Social and Policy Issues. It addresses these themes in the context of sustainable intensification (SI). It implies increasing agronomic production from the existing land while improving/restoring its quality and decreasing the C or environmental footprint. Simply put, SI means producing more from less.

Author : Belloumi, Mounir
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Investigating the impact of climate change on agricultural production in eastern and southern African countries by Belloumi, Mounir Pdf

Climate change has been a significant issue since the end of the 20th century, and impacts a variety of economic sectors, primarily agriculture. The negative impacts of climate change on agricultural production are important because agriculture is closely linked to food security. Although they contribute the least to global pollution, it is estimated that African countries will be the most affected by climate variability. Our paper analyzes the impact of climate change on agricultural production in 11 Eastern and Southern African countries (ESA) during the period from 1961 to 2011 and estimates a panel data model for agricultural production using climate variables (e.g., annual precipitation and annual mean temperature) and economic factors (e.g., livelihood, fertilizer use, machinery, agricultural land, and labor) as explanatory variables.

Author : Pius Z. Yanda,Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789987080892

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Managing a Changing Climate in Africa by Pius Z. Yanda,Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya Pdf

There is sufficient evidence to support the fact that climate change is occurring and that this is set to accelerate. While some scholars argue that climate change is largely due to natural changes, others postulate that anthropogenic factors are the major cause. Climate change associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide is likely to affect developed and developing countries differentially, with major vulnerabilities occurring in low-latitude regions. This book presents research findings and case studies with the endeavour to inform policies geared towards addressing problems emanating from these changes. Climate variability raises concerns over the future of agriculture, conditions of land and water availability. Therefore, climate change amplifies many economic and social risks, as well as deterioration of the environment. At the same time, non-climatic risk factors such as economic instability, trade liberalization, conflicts and poor governance all inflict upon vulnerable communities. Key discussions in this title rest on: Climate Change in Africa: its impact on rural communities, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, financial requirements of reducing green house gases, technological transfer and natural resources; Case Studies of Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability in Eastern and Southern Africa: experiences of impacts and adaptation to extreme events, concrete experiences from farmers and crop production adaptation; and Challenges and Opportunities to Climate Change Adaptation: factors that influence choice of response strategies, challenges and opportunities for ecosystem-based approaches; and challenges and opportunities from the use of bio-fuels as a mitigation measure to climate change.

Author : Steffen Bauer,Imme Scholz
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849775014

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa by Steffen Bauer,Imme Scholz Pdf

Adverse climate impacts are already evident across Southern Africa and pose a serious threat to the development prospects of the region's societies. Sustainable development in this region will depend on the rapid development and implementation of effective adaptation measures.This volume identifies the new socioeconomic and political boundaries to development that result from ongoing climate change in Southern Africa. The collected papers explore the region's potential for a transition to development strategies that combine meaningful socioeconomic investment and adaptation measures while also improving livelihoods in the region. The chapters are backed up by detailed case studies which underscore the urgent need for national governments and multilateral agencies to develop strategies to support Southern Africa's societies in adapting to climate change.

Author : Jane Battersby,Vanessa Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351751346

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Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities by Jane Battersby,Vanessa Watson Pdf

As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. Chapters examine the linkages between poverty, urban food systems and local governance with a focus on case studies from three smaller or secondary cities in Africa: Kisumu (Kenya), Kitwe (Zambia) and Epworth (Zimbabwe). The book makes a wider contribution to debates on urban studies and urban governance in Africa through analysis of the causes and consequences of the paucity of urban-scale data for decision makers, and by presenting potential methodological innovations to address this paucity. As the global development agenda is increasingly focusing on urban issues, most notably the urban goal of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, the work is timely. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315191195, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.