History of the Organization
AFSUN was founded in 2008 to generate knowledge on the dimensions of food insecurity among Africa’s urban poor, to propose practical solutions on how to feed Africa’s hungry cities, and to build the capacity of African researchers, policy-makers, and civil society organizations to develop solutions to the urgent but complex problems of urban food insecurity on the continent (http://www.afsun.org). AFSUN began as a partnership between the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities and Queen’s University’s Southern African Research Centre funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). These two organizations now lead an extensive international collaboration involving five Canadian universities as well as institutions in nine African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). The network also has partners in the governmental and nongovernmental sectors. All AFSUN...
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Crush, J. (2013). African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN). In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_380-1
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