Abstract:
Food security is an critical issue in most African cities.
Local government initiatives such as the City of
Johannesburg Food Resilience Strategy are established to
enhance food security in the city. The article draws insight
from literature across multiple disciplines to examine the
extent to which the Food Resilience Strategy relates food
security to the economic challenges which citizens face. It
discusses critical themes for sustainable urban food security
namely, skills capacity and knowledge transference, access
to land and water, institutional challenges, economic
factors, urban agriculture production and environmental
factors. Finally, the article recommends an integration of
diverse stakeholders in the design and implementation of
the Food Resilience Strategy, and thereby foster synergies
between local producers and the local food market.
