TY  - GEN
T1  - Seeking the right to food : food activism in South Africa
A1  - Nkrumah, Bright, 1982-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781009019002
AB  - Despite a constitutional right to food, a comprehensive social security structure, being a net exporter of agricultural products and maintaining a rising GDP, freedom from hunger remains a pipedream for millions of South Africans. With a constant surge in food prices, the availability of sustenance is often seriously threatened for all of South Africa's population. While the underprivileged majority residing in townships often demonstrate their discontent for poor service delivery on the streets, they rarely channel this strategy into taming food inflation. This study seeks to understand this irony and examine ways in which this trend could be reversed. Proposing a compelling argument for food activism, Bright Nkrumah suggests ways of mobilising disempowered groups to reclaim this inherent right. Presented alongside historical and contemporary case studies to illustrate the dynamics of collective action and food security in South Africa, he draws from legal, social and political theory to make the case for 'activism' as a force for alleviating food insecurity.
OP  - 226
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Aug 2021).
CN  - HD9017.S72 N67 2021
SN  - 9781009019002 (ebook)
SN  - 9781316519790 (hardback)
SN  - 9781009011174 (paperback)
SN  - 9781316519790
KW  - Food security : South Africa.
KW  - Human rights movements : South Africa.
KW  - Food supply : Government policy : South Africa.
KW  - Food supply : Social aspects : South Africa.
KW  - Right to food : South Africa.
KW  - South Africa : Social policy.
ER  -