Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
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改变非洲二线城市的城市粮食系统
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-93072-1_2
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发表时间:
2023
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通讯作者:
Haysom G
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Haysom G
Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but this urbanization process is not well understood, in intermediate or secondary cities in particular. Secondary cities will be home to the majority of future urban residents (Fox & Beall, 2012; Satterthwaite & Mitlin, 2013; UN-DESA 2018). This chapter recognizes the contestation over described trends in rates of urban growth, the associated patterns of poverty and inequality and their relationship to public policy (McGranahan et al., 2008; Potts, 2012), appreciating the challenges associated with using nationally derived demographic figures. Part of the challenge with inadequate demographic data has been a general disregard for African cities in global development and national political processes, as argued previously:“until fairly recently Africanists largely ignored, or were openly hostile to, almost all aspects of a wider urban agenda, focusing instead on issues such as the peasantry,