Several decades of research on 'urban agriculture' have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once again, being advocated as a means to mitigate the growing food insecurity of the urban poor. This article examines the contemporary importance of household food production in poor urban communities in 11 different Southern African Development Community (SADC) cities. It shows that urban food production is not particularly signifi cant in most communities and that many more households rely on supermarkets and the informal sector to access food. Even fewer households derive income from the sale of produce. This picture varies considerably, however, from city to city, for reasons that require further research and explanation.
In this final report on animal geographies, I address species relations of power. These relations reflect the relative power held by various animal groups, as expressed in their circumstances and experiences and as mediated through human-animal dynamics. Investigating the breadth and complexity of these power dynamics is important given that we live in a multispecies world and we continue to seek avenues for de-centring ‘the human’ in theory and practice. Animal geographies offer scholarly tools through which to explore, unpack, and interrogate multispecies hierarchical networks. The result is a holistic, in-depth view of relations of power that illuminates how animal social groups are bound up with humans, as well as with other animals, in ways that produce and reproduce species-based differences and inequalities.
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