Prof. Daniel Tevera

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Position:	Head of Department (Geography)
Department:	Geography,Environmental Studies & Tourism
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Qualifications:	PhD (Cincinnati), MA (Queens, Canada), BA (Sierra Leone)
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More about me:	here, and here
Tel:	021 959 2160
Fax:	021 959 3422
Email:	dtevera@uwc.ac.za

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Food security in Southern African cities: the place of urban agriculture
(Sage Publications, 2011) Crush, Jonathan; Hovorka, Alice; Tevera, Daniel
Several decades of research on �urban agriculture� have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban agriculture is, once again, being advocated as a means to mitigate the growing food insecurity of the urban poor. This article examines the contemporary importance of household food production in poor urban communities in 11 different Southern African Development Community (SADC) cities. It shows that urban food production is not particularly significant in most communities and that many more households rely on supermarkets and the informal sector to access food. Even fewer households derive income from the sale of produce. This picture varies considerably, however, from city to city, for reasons that require further research and explanation.