Description
The Hungry Season: Feeding South Africa’s Cities is a work of investigative non-fiction by science writer Leonie Joubert, with photography by Eric Miller, examining food security and malnutrition in southern Africa’s cities and towns. Rather than focusing on rural subsistence farming, the book looks at how rapid urbanisation is changing the way people access, choose and consume food.
Joubert and Miller travel to eight cities and towns across southern Africa, exploring issues including childhood stunting and malnutrition, changing diets, lifestyle-related illness, nutritional literacy, urban food gardens and large-scale food production. They also examine the effects of poverty and unemployment, urban planning, supermarkets, the food supply chain and food waste, asking why hunger persists in a region that produces enough food to feed its population.
A good choice for readers interested in South African and southern African society, food security, nutrition, urban development, poverty and the social and environmental issues surrounding the food we eat.
