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23 May 2012
   
 
 
Article by: Creamer Media Reporter
 
 
 
 
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Challenges to urban food supply in South Africa - 145 KB
 

The food security problem in South Africa is a highly complex social challenge. This is a social challenge that cannot be understood in isolation and should be understood in connection with other developmental challenges such as rural and urban development, social protection, health, access to services, land inputs and water and educational and nutritional knowledge and practices. Three challenges to urban food supply are identified and explored in this brief namely rapid urbanisation and urban food supply, the idea that the current global food system is a skewed system that is currently failing the estimated 925-million people globally that are experiencing food insecurity and, thirdly, the fact that South Africa lacks comprehensive policy frameworks on food security.

This brief is written by Charl van der Merwe, Research Assistant at the Africa Institute of South Africa
 

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