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Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South

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Authors:
  1. Alec Thornton

    1. University of New South Wales Australia, Canberra, Australia

  • Makes a substantive contribution to global scholarship on urban food systems and the urban UN SDG 11
  • Includes both case studies and thematic discussion
  • Case studies come from cities in the Global North and South which have often been neglected in the wider literature about urban food issues
  • Contains detailed policy suggestions

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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“Grounded in the urban politics of the 21st Century world-wide, this thoughtful volume hooks urban food – and especially its production – to social justice in a realistic and manageable way.”
—Diana Lee-Smith, Mazingira Institute, Kenya

“An excellent international overview of urban food democracy and governance, with impressive geographical reach.”
—Andre Viljoen, University of Brighton, UK

This edited collection explores urban food democracy as part of a broader policy-based approach to sustainable urban development. Conceptually, governance and social justice provide the analytical framework for a varied array of contributions which critically address issues including urban agriculture, smart cities, human health and wellbeing and urban biodiversity. Some chapters take the form of thematic, issue-based discussions, where others are constituted by empirical case studies. Contributing authors include both academic experts and practitioners who hail from a wide range of disciplines, professions and nations. All offer original research and robust consideration of urban food democracy in cities from across the Global North and South. Taken as a whole, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the potential enabling role of good urban governance in developing formal urban food policy that is economically and socially responsive and in tune with forms of community-driven adaptation of space for the local production, distribution and consumption of nutritious food.


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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxviii
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  2. Emergent UA Themes and Concepts from North and South

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Alec Thornton
      Pages 3-8

    3. Urban Agriculture in and Around Cities in Developed and Developing Countries: A Conceptualization of Urban Agriculture Dynamics and Challenges

      • Antonia D. Bousbaine, H. Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi, Christopher Bryant
      Pages 9-25

    4. Urban Agriculture as a Field: Governance, Communication and Collective Action

      • Daniel Keech, Matthew Reed
      Pages 27-44

    5. Urban Agriculture and the Battle for History in Melbourne and São Paulo

      • Adrian H. Hearn, Thais Mauad, Luis Fernando Amato-Lourenço, Guilherme Reis Ranieri, Chris Williams
      Pages 45-69

    6. Smart Food Cities on the Menu? Integrating Urban Food Systems into Smart City Policy Making

      • Israel Dela Cruz, Alec Thornton, Dagmar Haase
      Pages 71-84

  3. Opportunities for Top-Down/Bottom-Up Collaboration? Case Studies from the Global North

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Food Sovereignty: A Nirvana Concept for Swiss Urban Agriculture?

      • Cyril Mumenthaler, Rémi Schweizer, Joëlle Salomon Cavin
      Pages 87-100

    3. Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan

      • Paola Branduini, Coline Perrin, Brigitte Nougarèdes, Elena Colli
      Pages 101-122

    4. The Emergence of the Food Land Belt in Wallonia: An Innovative System to Feed Local Populations?

      • Antonia D. Bousbaine
      Pages 123-140

    5. Identifying and Solving Regulatory Issues and Solutions Through Some Case Studies of Urban Farming in Australia

      • Michael Mobbs, Helen Lynch, John Fry, Bronwyn Richards
      Pages 141-157

    6. Keeping Up Appearances: Conflicting Values in State Opposition to Growing Food in Public

      • Liesel Spencer
      Pages 159-173

  4. The South Takes the Lead: Case Studies from BRICS, Asia and Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Service Learning and Stakeholder Action: Technology and Education for Urban Agriculture in Johannesburg, South Africa

      • Naudé Malan
      Pages 177-191

    3. Emerging Enterprises and Sustainability in the Food System: Food Entrepreneurs in South Africa

      • Naudé Malan
      Pages 193-212

    4. Reconceptualizing Urban Agriculture in Africa: Issues of Scale, Class and Institutional Support in Zambian Copperbelt Towns

      • Tony Binns, Etienne Nel
      Pages 213-229

    5. Food Security and Land-Use Conflicts Within Regional Planning: The Recent Experience of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

      • Daniela Adil Oliveira de Almeida, Cecilia Rocha, Heloísa Soares de Moura Costa, Melissa Luciana de Araújo
      Pages 231-247

    6. Changing Agricultural Landscape and Immigrant Population in Thimphu, Bhutan

      • Raghubir Chand
      Pages 249-272

    7. Typological Diversity of Agriculture in a Densely Urbanised Region of São Paulo, Brazil

      • Giulia Giacchè, Lya Porto, Gustavo Nagib, Angelica Campos Nakamura, Guilherme Reis Ranieri
      Pages 273-289
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of New South Wales Australia, Canberra, Australia

    Alec Thornton

About the author

Alec Thornton is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Academic Co-Lead for Africa at the Institute for Global Development, University of New South Wales, Australia. He is Senior Research Associate at the School of Humanities and at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 

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