Table of Contents

1. Food activism and policy in South Africa; 2. A tale of food activism; 3. The case of Right to Food Campaign; 4. Rocking the boat? Mobilising for food security in South Africa; 5. Food (in)security and legal implications in South Africa; 6. The unfinished agenda: perspectives on South Africa's food (in)security; 7. Dispossession: reforming land in South Africa; 8. Ethical obligation to assist impoverished South Africans; 9. What is to be done: overcoming policy fragmentation in South Africa; Conclusion.

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Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.

About the Author

Bright Nkrumah is affiliated with the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his DPhil from the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and has published extensively on political contestation, minority rights, food (in)security, urban agriculture and democratisation.