Lockdown, resilience and emergency statecraft in the Cape Town food system

Kroll, Florian; Adelle, Camilla

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.104004

Cited by 8 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 24 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The Western Cape province has the highest rates of obesity in South Africa (WCG, 2016). Furthermore, although South Africa is a net exporter of food, many people in the country's townships suffer chronic malnutrition and widespread food insecurity, as they cannot afford to buy food (Tsegay and Rusare, 2014; Greenberg, 2015; Kroll, 2016; Greenberg, 2017).…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19

Kanosvamhira

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is well established that urban community gardens (UCGs) can either challenge or reinforce neoliberal urbanism. This duality is especially evident among UCGs that sell garden harvests for income generation. In this article I therefore examine UCGs in low‐income areas of Cape Town, South Africa, to understand how they might sell their harvests while countering the neoliberal food system in cities of the global South. I draw on qualitative fieldwork, including observations and semi‐structured interviews with UCG representatives and civil society actors. Most harvests are currently sold to high‐end venues through intermediary actors in civil society organizations (CSOs) and non‐governmental organizations (NGOs). However, this approach disregards the local community's socioeconomic conditions and undermines community gardens’ nutritional objectives. Yet, under specific scenarios, the sale of garden harvests could mitigate the persistent food injustice in Cape Town's low‐income areas. In this article I introduce a model for harvest sales that advances sustainable urban agriculture and fosters food justice in neoliberal cities in the global South.

show abstract

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

CULTIVATING FOOD JUSTICE: Redefining Harvest Sales for Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Low‐Income Cape Town post Covid‐19

Kanosvamhira

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In government management, studies demonstrated the coordination of governmental activities alongside strategic alignment of policy initiatives. Examples include the government's management of partnerships and coordination among the public, private, and third sectors, as well as policies and initiatives implemented at the local level (Kroll and Adelle, 2022;Parsons and Barling, 2022;Turcu and Rotolo, 2022). However, due to the fast-paced and highly uncertainty of pandemics, this required a rapid response from all actors.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food system under COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai: problems and countermeasures

Han,

Jia,

Liu

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

IntroductionOwing to the increased transmissibility of the Omicron virus, Shanghai implemented a citywide lockdown in 2022. This measure disrupted the normal functioning of the city’s food system and led to incidents related to food insecurity within the city. To mitigate these challenges, the local government and various stakeholders devised various solutions.MethodsIn this context, we adopted a root cause analysis to report the disruptions caused by the lockdown on Shanghai’s food system.ResultsAccording to disruptions, we listed the challenges faced by Shanghai’ food system and solutions implemented by the government and stakeholders.DiscussionWe discussed the underlying reasons behind food system disruptions and listed advantages of Shanghai’s solutions. We further scrutinized the sustainability of the solutions implemented in Shanghai. Finally, we discussed how to promote the urban food system resilience building based on research findings. The findings of this research are anticipated to provide valuable insights for other areas that may encounter similar challenges in the future while fortify their urban food systems.

show abstract

“…For instance, to assess the extent to which the public health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has led to a deeper transformation in the urban food system in Vienna, Austria, food policy scholars (e.g., Cifuentes & Fiala, 2022 ) have used a conceptual framework combining a food democracy framework ( López Cifuentes & Gugerell, 2021 ) and the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions (e.g., Geels & Schot, 2007 ). Elsewhere, to examine the emergence of transformative food governance innovations in the metropolis of Cape Town, South Africa ( Kroll & Adelle, 2022 ), researchers have used the multiple streams theory and the concept of “policy windows” ( Kingdon & Stano, 1984 ) in tandem with a vital systems security lens ( Collier & Lakoff, 2015 ), illustrating how government and civil society worked together to innovate and cushion the impacts of the lockdown.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%