Jane Battersby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 221282 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Battersby |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Battersby |
| FIRMA | BATTERSBY J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3646-9890 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 189 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Informality in food environments
Data requirements for a systematic analysis of urban food flows and their sustainability outcomes
This paper systematically assesses the quantity and quality of existing secondary data on urban food flows, as well as its potential use to analyse the impacts of such flows on human health and environmental sustainability. To do so, the authors built a digital, open-access platform to systematise, store and visualise urban food flows data. Given the importance of systematically understanding diverse urban food systems, the objective of the platf…
Urban African food systems as sites of challenges and opportunities for household food equity and resilience
Food and nutrition security remain a significant challenge in Southern Africa’s urban food systems (UFS), where most urban households buy rather than grow their food. UFS comprise a hybrid mix of household food sourcing opportunities from retailers, including open-air markets, street vendors, shops, and supermarkets, as well as household-level strategies, such as urban agriculture. UFS thus bridge the divide between sites of food production and c…
Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and empirical grounding to urgent work on urban food security and nutrition in the context of rapid urban and nutrition transitions in the South. We argue that …
Deliberative assembling
Assemblage thinking is an increasingly influential approach in critical studies of food and farming, and particularly in research on new agri-food technology such as precision agriculture (PA). This research is important in highlighting the distributed forms of power and agency through which farming worlds are assembled, and what these engender for more sustainable and equitable farming futures. However, to date, there has been limited attention …
Mapping food and physical activity environments in low- and middle-income countries
This systematised literature review synthesised evidence on approaches to mapping food and physical activity (PA) environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Of the 60 articles included, 25 and 35 mapped food and PA environments respectively. All studies were cross-sectional with researcher-led data collection. Three types of mapping tools were identified - maps (n = 18), GPS (n = 10), and GIS (n = 37). Our findings point to a pauci…
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities
In a rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), changing urban food systems are expected to affect the ways in which households access food. While significant research and policy efforts address food production to support food security in the context of city-region food systems, the complex nature of urban food systems has received less attention, particularly in secondary cities across the globe. Using household survey data collected in 2019 a…
Food purchasing behaviour of shoppers from different South African socio-economic communities
Objective: To identify factors associated with food purchasing decisions and expenditure of South African supermarket shoppers across income levels. Design: Intercept surveys were conducted, grocery receipts collated and expenditure coded into categories, with each category calculated as percentage of the total expenditure. In-supermarket food quality audit and shelf space measurements of foods such as fruits and vegetables (F&V) (healthy foods),…
Viewpoint
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources. Food system activities have contributed to great gains for humanity but have also led to significant challenges, including hunger, poor diet quality, inequity, and threats to nature. While it is recognized that food systems are central t…
Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
In the context of pressing socio-ecological challenges, from poverty and pandemics to climate change, urban food policies are expanding across the globe. The special issue on “Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future” aims to reflect on a decade of work and identify key concepts to deepen and broaden a transformative urban food agenda. This editorial provides an overview of the twelve papers that make up this collection, demonstratin…
Looking Backward to Go Forward
Research Article| February 01 2020 Looking Backward to Go Forward Jane Battersby Jane Battersby Jane Battersby is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, where she leads the food security and food systems cluster. Her current research focuses on African urban food systems and urban food planning and policy from a global southern perspective. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google …
Health care providers’ perspectives of diet-related non-communicable disease in South Africa
Supporting health care providers in understanding context, through approaches such as translational competency, while strengthening both health and social services, are vital given the high burden of NCDs in South Africa
No Looking Back
South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti-informality bias
Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Trends in urbanization and urban food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have stimulated critical debates around the potential benefits of urban agriculture (UA) to urban livelihoods. Some scholars suggest that UA can contribute to the food quantity, food quality and income needs of urban households. However, much of the evidence cited comes from single case studies, with particular attention paid to large cities and high-income countries. Th…
The Vulnerability and Resilience of African Food Systems, Food Security, and Nutrition in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the globe, ebbing and flowing from one region to the next, new infections and deaths continue to rise (Johns Hopkins 2020). Some of the first documented cases in Africa occurred in areas frequented by foreign tourists. Early on, the disease also circulated among Africa's jet-setting political classes that had spent time in other regions of the world with higher infection rates. Since then, infections have tak…
Food insecurity in relation to obesity in peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa
Addressing food security in African cities
Ordering adoption
Africa’s Urban Food Deserts
The Geography of Supermarkets in Cape Town
Growing Communities
Hungry Cities
There has been renewed interest in the issue of food in cities in sub‐Saharan Africa. A similar renewal has been noted in the North American and European contexts. However, the political, practical, and ideological starting points of these research endeavors are quite different. This paper presents a historical and political lens through which the trajectories of urban food research in sub‐Saharan African can be understood. It begins with a histo…
Beyond the food desert
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the field is currently under ‐researched and under‐theorized. Urban food insecurity, where it is considered, has been viewed through a development studies lens that views food insecurity as a household‐scale problem. There has been significant focus on food deserts in developed countries as one way of engaging with such insecurity. The food deserts research…
Ordering adoption
Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
In the context of pressing socio-ecological challenges, from poverty and pandemics to climate change, urban food policies are expanding across the globe. The special issue on “Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future” aims to reflect on a decade of work and identify key concepts to deepen and broaden a transformative urban food agenda. This editorial provides an overview of the twelve papers that make up this collection, demonstratin…
Viewpoint
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources. Food system activities have contributed to great gains for humanity but have also led to significant challenges, including hunger, poor diet quality, inequity, and threats to nature. While it is recognized that food systems are central t…
The Vulnerability and Resilience of African Food Systems, Food Security, and Nutrition in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the globe, ebbing and flowing from one region to the next, new infections and deaths continue to rise (Johns Hopkins 2020). Some of the first documented cases in Africa occurred in areas frequented by foreign tourists. Early on, the disease also circulated among Africa's jet-setting political classes that had spent time in other regions of the world with higher infection rates. Since then, infections have tak…
Beyond the food desert
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the field is currently under ‐researched and under‐theorized. Urban food insecurity, where it is considered, has been viewed through a development studies lens that views food insecurity as a household‐scale problem. There has been significant focus on food deserts in developed countries as one way of engaging with such insecurity. The food deserts research…
Deliberative assembling
Assemblage thinking is an increasingly influential approach in critical studies of food and farming, and particularly in research on new agri-food technology such as precision agriculture (PA). This research is important in highlighting the distributed forms of power and agency through which farming worlds are assembled, and what these engender for more sustainable and equitable farming futures. However, to date, there has been limited attention …
Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Trends in urbanization and urban food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have stimulated critical debates around the potential benefits of urban agriculture (UA) to urban livelihoods. Some scholars suggest that UA can contribute to the food quantity, food quality and income needs of urban households. However, much of the evidence cited comes from single case studies, with particular attention paid to large cities and high-income countries. Th…
Country reports
Overcoming The Apartheid Legacy In Cape Town Schools
Restructuring apartheid geographies of racial stratification and spatial segregation poses formidable challenges, not least in education. Increasing intraracial inequality also underscores the importance of widening access and opportunity. Although South African education is not constrained by the highly localized control found in the United States and the United Kingdom, school allocation policies and parental choices create geographies that int…
South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti-informality bias
Addressing food security in African cities
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa
Studying together, living apart
Desegregation of South African schools is creating new geographies of education. Parental choice of school in the context of continuing spatial inequalities of educational provision encourages considerable movement of pupils from outside traditional catchment areas, as parents send children to distant schools formerly intended for members of other racial groups. To explore the socio-economic context of such choices, and the costs of making them, …
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities
In a rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), changing urban food systems are expected to affect the ways in which households access food. While significant research and policy efforts address food production to support food security in the context of city-region food systems, the complex nature of urban food systems has received less attention, particularly in secondary cities across the globe. Using household survey data collected in 2019 a…
No Looking Back
Cape Town’s Model C schools
Country reports
Overcoming The Apartheid Legacy In Cape Town Schools
Restructuring apartheid geographies of racial stratification and spatial segregation poses formidable challenges, not least in education. Increasing intraracial inequality also underscores the importance of widening access and opportunity. Although South African education is not constrained by the highly localized control found in the United States and the United Kingdom, school allocation policies and parental choices create geographies that int…
Studying together, living apart
Desegregation of South African schools is creating new geographies of education. Parental choice of school in the context of continuing spatial inequalities of educational provision encourages considerable movement of pupils from outside traditional catchment areas, as parents send children to distant schools formerly intended for members of other racial groups. To explore the socio-economic context of such choices, and the costs of making them, …
Beyond the food desert
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the field is currently under ‐researched and under‐theorized. Urban food insecurity, where it is considered, has been viewed through a development studies lens that views food insecurity as a household‐scale problem. There has been significant focus on food deserts in developed countries as one way of engaging with such insecurity. The food deserts research…
Growing Communities
Hungry Cities
There has been renewed interest in the issue of food in cities in sub‐Saharan Africa. A similar renewal has been noted in the North American and European contexts. However, the political, practical, and ideological starting points of these research endeavors are quite different. This paper presents a historical and political lens through which the trajectories of urban food research in sub‐Saharan African can be understood. It begins with a histo…
Africa’s Urban Food Deserts
The Geography of Supermarkets in Cape Town
Ordering adoption
Addressing food security in African cities
Food insecurity in relation to obesity in peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa
Looking Backward to Go Forward
Research Article| February 01 2020 Looking Backward to Go Forward Jane Battersby Jane Battersby Jane Battersby is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, where she leads the food security and food systems cluster. Her current research focuses on African urban food systems and urban food planning and policy from a global southern perspective. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google …
Health care providers’ perspectives of diet-related non-communicable disease in South Africa
Supporting health care providers in understanding context, through approaches such as translational competency, while strengthening both health and social services, are vital given the high burden of NCDs in South Africa
No Looking Back
South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti-informality bias
Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Trends in urbanization and urban food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have stimulated critical debates around the potential benefits of urban agriculture (UA) to urban livelihoods. Some scholars suggest that UA can contribute to the food quantity, food quality and income needs of urban households. However, much of the evidence cited comes from single case studies, with particular attention paid to large cities and high-income countries. Th…
The Vulnerability and Resilience of African Food Systems, Food Security, and Nutrition in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the globe, ebbing and flowing from one region to the next, new infections and deaths continue to rise (Johns Hopkins 2020). Some of the first documented cases in Africa occurred in areas frequented by foreign tourists. Early on, the disease also circulated among Africa's jet-setting political classes that had spent time in other regions of the world with higher infection rates. Since then, infections have tak…
Food purchasing behaviour of shoppers from different South African socio-economic communities
Objective: To identify factors associated with food purchasing decisions and expenditure of South African supermarket shoppers across income levels. Design: Intercept surveys were conducted, grocery receipts collated and expenditure coded into categories, with each category calculated as percentage of the total expenditure. In-supermarket food quality audit and shelf space measurements of foods such as fruits and vegetables (F&V) (healthy foods),…
Viewpoint
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources. Food system activities have contributed to great gains for humanity but have also led to significant challenges, including hunger, poor diet quality, inequity, and threats to nature. While it is recognized that food systems are central t…
Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future
In the context of pressing socio-ecological challenges, from poverty and pandemics to climate change, urban food policies are expanding across the globe. The special issue on “Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future” aims to reflect on a decade of work and identify key concepts to deepen and broaden a transformative urban food agenda. This editorial provides an overview of the twelve papers that make up this collection, demonstratin…
Mapping food and physical activity environments in low- and middle-income countries
This systematised literature review synthesised evidence on approaches to mapping food and physical activity (PA) environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Of the 60 articles included, 25 and 35 mapped food and PA environments respectively. All studies were cross-sectional with researcher-led data collection. Three types of mapping tools were identified - maps (n = 18), GPS (n = 10), and GIS (n = 37). Our findings point to a pauci…
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa
Persistence of open-air markets in the food systems of Africa's secondary cities
In a rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), changing urban food systems are expected to affect the ways in which households access food. While significant research and policy efforts address food production to support food security in the context of city-region food systems, the complex nature of urban food systems has received less attention, particularly in secondary cities across the globe. Using household survey data collected in 2019 a…
Bringing together urban systems and food systems theory and research is overdue
Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and empirical grounding to urgent work on urban food security and nutrition in the context of rapid urban and nutrition transitions in the South. We argue that …
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