Description
Product ID: | 9780367000455 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | African Seminars: Scholarship from the International African Institute |
Title: | Feeding African Cities |
Subtitle: | Studies in Regional Social History |
Authors: | Author: Jane Guyer |
Page Count: | 262 |
Subjects: | Anthropology, Anthropology, Human geography, Regional geography, Human geography, Regional geography, Africa |
Description: | Originally published in 1987, this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy, drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. The political and material dynamics of urban food supply are explored through 4 case studies: Kano, Yaoundé, Dar es Salaam and Harare. Originally published in 1987, this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy, drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. Urban food supply systems in Africa have developed very fast, in the midst of societies in which food production was not in general oriented to feeding distant populations of ''specialist consumers''. Institutional and political links had to be forged between town and country if food supply was to be cheap and predictable. This volume explores the political and material dynamics of urban food supply through 4 case studies: Kano, Yaoundé, Dar es Salaam and Harare. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-08-24 |