The study focuses on potential impacts on the food system of Cape Town and identifies opportunities to enhance its resilience.
The presentation provides a nutrition profile from African data that indicates the prevalence of adult overweight and obesity.
The presentation promotes the integration of local food into city planning. It illustrates how city planners and local governments have no clear planning provisions for food markets/traders, which results in food insecurity and malnutrition.
This presentation by African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) reviews the institutional framework within which food systems have to operate. The planning system is one of the most important tools for government to influence society.
The Chisokone food market in urban Kitwe (Zambia) occupied zoned land that could be used for a mall and was relocated to make way for “development.” This presentation by African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) reviews the urban planning framew
The policy framing of food security must alter to consider food supply as a municipal function. Urban zoning laws that discriminate against small traders are highlighted.
In Cape Town food policies locate food security as the responsibility of the provincial government.
The forum created an opportunity to validate findings of the Stories of Change research initiative from the School of Public Health (University of Ghana) and to disseminate nutrition and food environment research and advocacy initiatives.
The aim is to foster partnerships for integrated research across malaria-endemic regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing collaboration, multi-stakeholder engagement, sensitivity to equity, and sustainability.