Food security is the most important consideration in assessing the
significance of UA. This seems to be the strongest argument which
politicians and planners in the South invoke to accommodate the rise
of farming in their cities. Food security is basically defined as
access by all people at all times to the food required for a healthy
life. It addresses the risks of not having access to needed
quantities and quality of food (von Braun et al. 1993: 3). One can
readily see why local authorities have begun to seriously revisit
earlier, largely colonial attitudes, towards city farming.
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revised, June 12,1995
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