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Database research record2023·Africa

Urban Food Security and Resilience

Gareth Haysom, Jane Battersby

Palgrave studies in agricultural economics and food policy

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Based on findings from cities in five African countries, this study argues for a re-framing of urban food system resilience. It contends that the urban system, specifically infrastructure, shapes the functioning of the food system and consumers' ability to use it, and that the agency of urban food system users needs inclusion in understandings of, and efforts to increase, food systems resilience.