Urban food insecurity in Cape Town, South Africa: An alternative approach to food access
Urban food insecurity in Cape Town, South Africa: An alternative approach to food access
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DOI：
10.1080/0376835x.2011.605572
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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1.4
通讯作者：
Battersby, Jane
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作者：
Battersby, Jane
本文介绍了非洲粮食安全城市网络2008年开普敦基线调查的数据。这项调查发现，80%的抽样家庭可被归类为中度或严重粮食不安全。在城市地区，粮食不安全的主要驱动因素不是供应，而是获取。人们通常认为，获得服务与收入直接相关。研究发现，家庭使用正规食品市场，但更频繁地依赖非正规部门市场和非正规社会安全网。一个家庭的粮食越不安全，收入越少，就越有可能依赖非正规的粮食保障手段。这表明，在正规粮食系统中存在某种形式的市场失灵。因此，本文主张采用一种粮食系统方法，确认和支持非正规部门在城市粮食安全中发挥的作用。
This paper presents data from the African Food Security Urban Network's 2008 baseline survey of Cape Town. This survey found that 80% of the sampled households could be classified as moderately or severely food insecure. In urban areas the main driver of food insecurity is not availability but access. Access is typically viewed as being directly related to income. Households were found to use formal food markets, but more frequently depended on informal sector markets and informal social safety nets. The more food insecure and income poor a household was, the more likely it was to be dependent on less formal means of securing food. This suggests that there is some form of market failure in the formal food system. This paper therefore advocates for a food systems approach that validates and supports the role that the informal sector plays in urban food security.