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DOI	10.3390/su11020458
	The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk
	Battersby, Jane
通讯作者	Battersby, Jane
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
EISSN	2071-1050
出版年	2019
卷号	11 期号:2
英文摘要	The idea that food insecurity can be resolved by increasing the presence of supermarkets has been gaining traction in African cities and has recently gained political traction in Africa. This paper interrogates the potential value and risks associated with the adoption of the discourse of the food desert in the African context. The paper draws on findings from a households survey, neighborhoods-scale food retail mapping and surveys, and city-wide supermarket mapping conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Kisumu (Kenya), and Kitwe (Zambia). Following a discussion of why the concept is gaining traction, the paper identifies false assumptions associated with the food desert framing in Africa, namely: supermarkets provide better access to healthier food, low-income areas have poor access to healthy food; and food security can be reduced to economic and physical accessibility. The paper concludes that although the food desert concept may be valuable for African researchers to provoke debates about systemic inequality, the food desert policy narrative should be rejected as it is ill-informed by the lived experiences of food insecurity in African cities and may promote policy interventions that erode rather than enhance the capacity of the food system to meet the food security needs of African urbanites.
英文关键词	food desert food security food justice African urbanism African food systems food policy
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	South Africa
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000457129900162
WOS关键词	SECURITY ; INSECURITY ; AVAILABILITY ; NAIROBI
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/218959
作者单位	Univ Cape Town, African Ctr Cities, Private Bag x3, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Battersby, Jane. The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk[J],2019,11(2).
APA	Battersby, Jane.(2019).The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk.SUSTAINABILITY,11(2).
MLA	Battersby, Jane."The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk".SUSTAINABILITY 11.2(2019).

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