Environmental Resilience

Food and the City—Zimbabwe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. The book shows how in spite of the important space food occupies in the lives of all city residents, the planning and regulatory framework does not facilitate the better performance of food systems.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-22
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt489 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAdvances in 21st Century Human Settlements
Antal sidor202
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811603044

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Percy Toriro is an Urban Planner practicing in Eastern and Southern Africa. He is also a Research Consultant with the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. He is a four-term past President of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners. He also taught in the Planning School at the University of Zimbabwe and once headed Town Planning for the City of Harare. Percy holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and is a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. His research areas include Housing, Urban Informality, Food Systems and Security, Migration, Urban Environments and Sustainability.Innocent Chirisa is a professor in the Department of Demography Settlement and Development, University of Zimbabwe. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State,South Africa.

Environmental resilience – Food and the city.-City food in Zimbabwe: The origins and evolution.- Urban food: An examination of the policy and legislative framework.-Food processing, handling and marketing in Zimbabwe.- Urban food markets and the resilience factor in Zimbabwe.- Food wastein urban Zimbabwe: Options for food recycling.- Food availability, preferences and consumption in Zimbabwean urban spaces.- Food and city planning management in Zimbabwe.- Zimbabwean urban planners and their role in urban food.- Training institutions and food in the curriculum.- The teaching of home economics in primary schools in Zimbabwe.- Informal food spaces: Implications for public health.- The future of food, the city and environment: Case for resilience in Zimbabwe.