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Urban food security and climate change: A system of flows

Author: Jane Battersby
Organisation: University of Cape Town
Publish Date: 2010
Country: South Africa
Sector: Community
Method: Creating alternatives
Theme: Food
Type: Other publication
Language: English
Tags: Food security, Urban food security, Cape Town, Flow-based models, Household survival, Individual vulnerability, Climate change

Attempts to develop a new model for understanding the dynamics of food security in urban areas through using a flow-based model. The model highlights that urban food security is based on the integration of a range of flow types (and individual sources of flows within these broad flow types) in household survival strategies. Given that these flows emanate in different locations and take a range of paths, they are subject to a range of potential climate related impacts. The chapter argues that by encouraging dependence on a wider range of flow types and specific flows within each flow types (i.e. increasing the number of reduncancies), household food security can enhanced. In order to achieve this, government (local and national) need to facilitate the survival of flows that have been neglected thus far, including the informal food system and rural-urban connections. In addition, further research needs to be done assessing the vulnerability of individual flows to projected climate change. It is hoped that this model provides a means for integrated cross-scale systems thinking to develop connection climate change and urban food security.
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