Economic crisis and food security in Africa: Exploring the significance of urban agriculture in Zambia’s Copperbelt province

Smart, Jessie; Nel, Etienne; Binns, Tony

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.07.009

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“…Moreover, the continent is grappling to sustain its food production due to drought challenges which are increasing in both frequency and severity, with some analysts largely attributing this to climate change [3][4][5][6]. While there are some regions which are obtaining surpluses in agricultural food production, Africa has poor distribution channels largely due to poor transport infrastructure (air, road, rail, sea), inefficient institutions which promote redistribution and trade facilitation, as well as information asymmetry.…”

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The Effects of AfCFTA on Food Security Sustainability: An Analysis of the Cereals Trade in the SADC Region

Pasara

Diko

2020

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The signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has stimulated a lot of trade potential in Africa that could see the continent significantly improving its intra-trade levels, thereby boosting the economic welfare of Africans. In light of food security sustainability in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, this paper employed the World Integrated Trade Solution, Software for Market Analysis and Restrictions on Trade (WITS-SMART) simulation model to assess the potential effects of the AfCFTA on trade in cereals. Cereals have been regarded as the most critical component of food security. The model indicated trading partners for each of the 15 SADC countries, their level of trade creation, trade diversion, consumer surplus, welfare and revenue effects of any regional trade agreement. The results indicated that the AfCFTA will only lead to positive outcomes in four (Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Namibia) of the fifteen SADC countries, with the rest remaining unchanged. In general, previously closed economies, that is, economies which were not part of a free trade agreement (FTA) or a deeper arrangement will stand to gain more than open economies because they are already opened up at the free trade level, which is equivalent to the AfCFTA. Thus, as far as cereals and food security is concerned, the AfCFTA will add minimal value. However, the overall value gains are likely to be greater when all food categories are included in the simulations. In general, the study recommends that African countries should deepen their integration levels to perhaps common markets where production factors, that is, labour and capital, become mobile. This will have multiplier effects in improving continental food security sustainability from a trade perspective.

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The Effects of AfCFTA on Food Security Sustainability: An Analysis of the Cereals Trade in the SADC Region

Pasara

Diko

2020

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“…A pervasive narrative is that urban community food gardens are a widespread and crucial coping strategy for the urban poor as one means among several of dealing with low cash income, perhaps excess household labor due to unemployment, high food prices and changing conditions in rapidly urbanizing situations [18][19][20]. Poor urban households often spend more than 50% of their cash income on food purchases [20,21].…”

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Temporal Dynamics and Motivations for Urban Community Food Gardens in Medium-Sized Towns of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Roberts

Shackleton

2018

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Urban agriculture is said to be increasing with global urbanization. However, there is little examination of the temporal or spatial dynamics of urban agriculture. We investigated the benefits and challenges experienced by community gardeners in four towns in South Africa, along with GIS analysis of the number, area, and location of urban food community gardens over the last three decades. Common reasons for practicing community gardening were cash poverty (37%) and the need to grow food (34%). The most common benefits reported by respondents were a healthy lifestyle (58%) and consumption of the food produced (54%). Theft of garden infrastructure or produce was a noteworthy challenge to continued motivation and engagement in urban community gardening. There were declines in the number and area of urban community gardens, and more central location over the last three decades. Only 16% of the gardens present in the 1980s were still operating in the 2000s. Clearly community gardening is temporally and spatially dynamic, which requires context-sensitive policy initiatives.

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“…Taking into contemplation that, life in the urban areas has become more expensive while the employment opportunities in the formal sectors have gone down and the received wages do not keep up with the commodities' price increases. Based on this fact, some urban occupants have opted for urban agriculture (Smart, Nel and Binns, 2015). Dar es Salaam like other cities in Africa has been facing some problems associated with poverty.…”

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“…Despite the fact that quite a lot of research works on urban agriculture have been conducted, including Schmidt (2011), Golden, (2013 Smart et al (2015), Birkved et al (2016) Rezai et al (2016) Kontothanasis, (2017, scarcely of the cited studies attempts to provide empirical evidence related to contribution of the urban agriculture to the poverty alleviation. This study, therefore, intended to fill the recognized gap, by exploring the contribution of urban agriculture focusing on vegetables and ornamental flowers related yield production using Ubungo Municipality as a case study.…”

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Opportunies of Urban Horticulture for Poverty Alleviation in Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania  A Case study of Ubungo Municipality

Bishoge

Suntu

2018

J Food Nut Agri

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The study was conducted to explore the opportunities of the urban agriculture focusing on vegetables and ornamental flowers production towards poverty reduction and alleviation in Dar es Salaam city as a case study of Ubungo Municipality. A nonrandom (availability) and purposive sampling methods were used to select 240 smallholder farmers and 16 local government officers as crucial informants respectively. The data were collected by using observation, questionnaires, interviews and documentary reviews. The collected data were coded and analyzed by using the SPSS. The study revealed that production of urban vegetables and ornamental flowers has a significant positive contribution towards the increase in availability and accessibility of food security, nutrients and income generation for the improvement of essential social services such as wate r, electricity, health, and education. It is recommended that the government and other stakeholders should recognize and provide more support to this sector for sustainable development.

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Economic crisis and food security in Africa: Exploring the significance of urban agriculture in Zambia’s Copperbelt province

Cited by 44 publications

References 34 publications

The Effects of AfCFTA on Food Security Sustainability: An Analysis of the Cereals Trade in the SADC Region

The Effects of AfCFTA on Food Security Sustainability: An Analysis of the Cereals Trade in the SADC Region

Temporal Dynamics and Motivations for Urban Community Food Gardens in Medium-Sized Towns of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Opportunies of Urban Horticulture for Poverty Alleviation in Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania  A Case study of Ubungo Municipality

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