This paper discusses the influences on food and farming of an increasingly urbanized world
and a declining ratio of food producers to food consumers. Urbanization has been …

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites of fungal origin and contaminate agricultural
commodities before or under post-harvest conditions. They are mainly produced by fungi in …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Both national and international policy responses to the rapid food price increases in 2007
and the first half of 2008 did little to address the very serious impacts on low-income urban …

Obesity is considered one of the major health concerns of the 21st century and is frequently
associated with economic development. This paper reviews evidence on internal (within …

Objective This literature review seeks to examine the evidence for the association between
urban agriculture (UA) and food security, dietary diversity, and nutritional status and clarify …

This book brings together 11 perspectives on sub-Saharan Africa's food security problems.
Topics covered include: the evolution of thinking about food security; agricultural issues in …

Home gardens are an essential component of the local food system and family farming
worldwide. In Indonesia, a home food gardening program was initiated in the early 2010s to …

When and why do the urban poor vote for opposition parties in Africa's electoral
democracies? The strategies used by political parties to incorporate the urban poor into the …

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 …