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Space and Food in the City

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This chapter will provide an overview of the main theoretical frameworks to be explored in this book, which are urban governance and social mobility, particularly in the production of urban food spaces. These frameworks will provide the analytical lens to explore city–community engagement (or lack thereof) in urban agriculture (UA) and urban food security in cities in developed and developing countries. This chapter will discuss ideas in critical urban theory, with respect to social production of local food space, food security, with a focus on current research to be explored in the literature on UA from cities in North and South contexts.

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    Food sovereignty—the right of people to control their own food system—has been taken up by urban food activists in developing countries, as a concept that offers more potential than ‘food security’ to ensure access to nutritious and affordable local food (Wittman et al. 2010).

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Thornton, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Space and Food in the City. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89324-2_1

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