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Environmental Resilience

Food and the City—Zimbabwe

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Percy Toriro

    1. Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe

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  2. Innocent Chirisa

    1. Department of Demography Settlement and Development, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

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  • Addresses the growing challenge of urban food security in a global South context
  • Appeals to a transdisciplinary audience including Planners, Geographers, Policy makers, Sociologists and City Managers
  • Contextualizes for in the framework of urban planning and governance, while registering food security as a key factor in urban development and management

Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Environmental Resilience—Food and the City

    • Christine Chivandire, Thebeth Masunda, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 1-16

  3. City Food in Zimbabwe: The Origins and Evolution

    • Tafadzwa Mutambisi, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 17-31

  4. Urban Food: An Examination of the Policy and Legislative Framework

    • Percy Toriro
    Pages 33-45

  5. Food Processing, Handling and Marketing in Zimbabwe

    • Emily Motsi
    Pages 47-67

  6. Urban Food Markets and the Resilience Factor in Zimbabwe

    • Percy Toriro, Tamirirepi Banhire
    Pages 69-85

  7. Food Waste in Urban Zimbabwe: Options for Food Recycling

    • Tinashe N. Kanonhuhwa, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 87-102

  8. Food Availability, Preferences and Consumption in Zimbabwean Urban Spaces

    • Marcyline Chivenge, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 103-115

  9. Food and City Planning Management in Zimbabwe

    • Percy Toriro, Charlotte Muziri
    Pages 117-134

  10. Zimbabwean Urban Planners and Their Role in Urban Food

    • Percy Toriro
    Pages 135-146

  11. Training Institutions and Food in the Curriculum

    • Emily Motsi
    Pages 147-160

  12. The Teaching of Home Economics in Primary Schools in Zimbabwe

    • Spiwe Makumbe, Tariro Nyevera
    Pages 161-173

  13. Informal Food Spaces: Implications for Public Health

    • Tinashe Bobo, Innocent Chirisa, Percy Toriro
    Pages 175-188

  14. The Future of Food, the City and Environment: Case for Resilience in Zimbabwe

    • Tinashe Kanonhuwa, Percy Toriro, Innocent Chirisa
    Pages 189-202
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About this book

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various chapters in the book demonstrate how urban populations in Zimbabwe and elsewhere have often devised ways to produce own food to supplement on their incomes. Food is produced largely by way of urban agriculture or imported from the countryside and sold in both formal and informal stores and stalls. The book shows how in spite of the important space food occupies in the lives of all city residents, the planning and regulatory framework does not facilitate the better performance of food systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Percy Toriro

  • Department of Demography Settlement and Development, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Innocent Chirisa

About the editors

Percy Toriro is an Urban Planner practicing in Eastern and Southern Africa. He is also a Research Consultant with the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. He is a four-term past President of the Zimbabwe Institute of Regional and Urban Planners. He also taught in the Planning School at the University of Zimbabwe and once headed Town Planning for the City of Harare. Percy holds a PhD from the University of Cape Town and is a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. His research areas include Housing, Urban Informality, Food Systems and Security, Migration, Urban Environments and Sustainability.



Innocent Chirisa is a professor in the Department of Demography Settlement and Development, University of Zimbabwe. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State,South Africa.

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