MDGs to SDGs – new goals, same gaps: the continued absence of urban food security in the post-2015 global development agenda. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Battersby, Jane
• Is Part Of: African geographical review. Volume 36:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 115
• Page End: 129
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Sustainable Development Goals -- food security -- African urbanization -- development discourse; Africa -- Geography -- Periodicals; Africa -- Description and travel -- Periodicals; 916.005
• DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2016.1208769
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1937-6812

Abstract

Abstract : Hunger and food insecurity have held prominent positions in the framing of both the Millennium Development Goals and the succeeding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper argues, however, that the food goal proposed within the SDGs is flawed in its approach towards achieving food security through its neglect of the urbanization of food insecurity in Africa and of the nutrition transition. The paper argues that these misalignments reflect a limited appreciation of the nature of food and nutrition insecurity in Africa and one that serves the interest of particular sets of development agendas.