The supermarket revolution and food security in Namibia /
The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia's capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods...
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
[Waterloo, Ontario?] : Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP), 2017. [Cape Town, South Africa] : African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) : Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP), 2017. |
| Series: | Urban food security series ;
no. 26. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 2. Supermarket ̀Revolution'
- 3. South Africa's Supermarket Revolution
- 3.1. Urban Food and Corporate Control
- 3.2. Consumer Markets and Supermarket Location
- 3.3. Supermarkets and Informal Food Vendors
- 4. South African Supermarkets in Africa
- 4.1. Corporate Expansion
- 4.2. South Africa's Supermarkets
- 4.3. Supermarkets in Question
- 5. Study Methodology
- 6. Supermarkets in Namibia and Windhoek
- 6.1. Spatial Distribution of Supermarkets
- 6.2. Supermarket Supply Chains
- 7. Poverty and Food Insecurity in Windhoek
- 7.1. Geography of Poverty
- 7.2. Levels of Food Insecurity in Windhoek
- 7.3. Household Expenditure on Food
- 8. Supermarket Patronage in Windhoek
- 8.1. Main Sources of Food
- 8.2. Frequency of Food Purchase
- 8.3. Supermarket Domination of Food Purchasing
- 8.4. Consumer Attitudes to Supermarkets
- 8.5. Labour Disputes With Supermarkets
- 9. Impact of Supermarkets on Informal Food Sector
- 10. Conclusion.
