Contributing to food security in urban areas: Differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North. Agric. Hum. Values 2015. [CrossRef]Opitz, I.; Berges, R.; Piorr, A.; Krikser, T. Contributing to food security in urban areas: Differences between urban ...
Food security is becoming an increasingly relevant topic in the Global North, especially in urban areas. Because such areas do not always have good access to nutritionally adequate food, the question of how to supply them is an urgent priority in order to maintain a healthy population. Urban an...
Food security has emerged as a trending issue in urban areas with the threat of climate change, unhealthy lifestyles, and reduced open space in urbanised environments. It is assumed that this is caused by a number of economic and policy factors, as well as urban planning and transport planning...
Government has since started rolling out the food relief programme — which was previously reserved for rural dwellers — to urban areas, in a bid to guarantee food security countrywide. More safety nets are expected to be rolled out in health delivery, education, housing, non-monetary benefits ...
A network of emergency reserves, processing and distribution is in place, with outlets to supply sub-districts and communities in urban and rural areas. These play an important role in response to natural disasters such as earth...
A significant portion of the food cultivated in rural areas ends up in cities. Thus it makes sense to integrate food security within urban areas rather than relying entirely on subsistence farmers in the countryside, who are currently unable to meet the country’s food needs. While there may ...
Food access: Having sufficient resources to afford a healthy diet, is the most important dimension of food security in urban areas, because urban dwellers are net food buyers. In many cities of developing countries, inhabitants buy more than 90 percent of their food (Maxwell et al. 2000; ...
As the world becomes increasingly urban, food demand will come mainly from people living in cities while therewill be fewer rural farmers producing food on less land with less water. Cities can play a bigger role in foodsecurity. But to accomplish this requires new thinking and new policies by...
As most low-income groups in both rural and urban areas are net buyers of food, access and affordability are central concerns. There is also a need for more attention to urban food security. While more than half of the world's population now live in urban centres and on average benefit ...
Drawing from Popkin's nutrition transition theory, the chapter discusses how obesity and evolving nutrition challenges are increasingly linked to the impacts of urbanisation, such as contemporary lifestyles in urban areas. The chapter provides a revised conceptual framework of food insecurity risks and a...