Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture

This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including insufficien...

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description This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including insufficient food access and disastrous land dispossessions. This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by engaging with food sovereignty discourses and movements in urban areas. Related activism of urban food producers in the Global South remains underrepresented in practice and in literature. Therefore, this book engages with the lived realities of an urban agriculture initiative in George, South Africa. Building on theoretical notions of the "right to the city" and "everyday forms of resistance", the book illuminates how deprived food producers expose inequalities and propose alternatives. The findings of in-depth empirical research reveal that dwellers perceive farming as a mean to overcome historical segregation, high food prices, and unhealthy nutrition. Hence, they breathe life into food sovereignty in practice and suggest further alliances beyond the city. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of alternative food politics, agrarian transformation, and food movements as well as rural-urban intersections.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1773452026-06-10T05:21:21Z Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture Siebert, Anne Critical food studies Agri-food system inequality Land dispossession impacts Right to the city theory Grassroots resistance movements Global South food justice Urban farming social transformation Food Sovereignty Agri Food System Urban Agriculture Food Sovereignty Discourse Social Reproduction Urban Food Urban Food Producers Food Sovereignty Movements Food Sovereignty Efforts George Municipality Critical Agrarian Studies Urban Agriculture Initiatives Critical Urban Theory Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAC Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including insufficient food access and disastrous land dispossessions. This volume particularly aims to fill the gap in the current literature by engaging with food sovereignty discourses and movements in urban areas. Related activism of urban food producers in the Global South remains underrepresented in practice and in literature. Therefore, this book engages with the lived realities of an urban agriculture initiative in George, South Africa. Building on theoretical notions of the "right to the city" and "everyday forms of resistance", the book illuminates how deprived food producers expose inequalities and propose alternatives. The findings of in-depth empirical research reveal that dwellers perceive farming as a mean to overcome historical segregation, high food prices, and unhealthy nutrition. Hence, they breathe life into food sovereignty in practice and suggest further alliances beyond the city. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of alternative food politics, agrarian transformation, and food movements as well as rural-urban intersections. 2026-06-10T05:21:21Z 2026-06-10T05:21:21Z 2026-06-09T08:33:36Z book book ONIX_20260415T184307_9781000608915_20 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114079 9781000608915 9781003182634 9781000608922 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177345 eng Critical Food Studies open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003182634 10.4324/9781003182634 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781000608915 9781003182634 9781000608922 Routledge 174 Oxford open access
spellingShingle Critical food studies
Agri-food system inequality
Land dispossession impacts
Right to the city theory
Grassroots resistance movements
Global South food justice
Urban farming social transformation
Food Sovereignty
Agri Food System
Urban Agriculture
Food Sovereignty Discourse
Social Reproduction
Urban Food
Urban Food Producers
Food Sovereignty Movements
Food Sovereignty Efforts
George Municipality
Critical Agrarian Studies
Urban Agriculture Initiatives
Critical Urban Theory
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAC Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
Siebert, Anne
Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture
title Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture
title_full Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture
title_fullStr Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture
title_full_unstemmed Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture
title_short Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture
title_sort food sovereignty and urban agriculture
topic Critical food studies
Agri-food system inequality
Land dispossession impacts
Right to the city theory
Grassroots resistance movements
Global South food justice
Urban farming social transformation
Food Sovereignty
Agri Food System
Urban Agriculture
Food Sovereignty Discourse
Social Reproduction
Urban Food
Urban Food Producers
Food Sovereignty Movements
Food Sovereignty Efforts
George Municipality
Critical Agrarian Studies
Urban Agriculture Initiatives
Critical Urban Theory
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAC Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
topic_facet Critical food studies
Agri-food system inequality
Land dispossession impacts
Right to the city theory
Grassroots resistance movements
Global South food justice
Urban farming social transformation
Food Sovereignty
Agri Food System
Urban Agriculture
Food Sovereignty Discourse
Social Reproduction
Urban Food
Urban Food Producers
Food Sovereignty Movements
Food Sovereignty Efforts
George Municipality
Critical Agrarian Studies
Urban Agriculture Initiatives
Critical Urban Theory
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAC Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
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