Environmental Resilience [electronic resource] : Food and the City-Zimbabwe / edited by Percy Toriro, Innocent Chirisa.

9789811603051

1st ed. 2021.

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

1 online resource (X, 202 p.) 17 illus., 10 illus. in color.

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This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a 'determinant of success' in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various chapters in the book demonstrate how urban populations in Zimbabwe and elsewhere have often devised ways to produce own food to supplement on their incomes. Food is produced largely by way of urban agriculture or imported from the countryside and sold in both formal and informal stores and stalls. The book shows how in spite of the important space food occupies in the lives of all city residents, the planning and regulatory framework does not facilitate the better performance of food systems.

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May 24, 2021