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Feeding Cities in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities for Action in Cartagena
Fall 2009
Topics
- Initial Work: Diagnostic by Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar (UTB)
- Introduction to the Seminar and the challenges of food provisioning in global south cities
- Food markets and development policy
- A discussion on informality, economic development and mobility in developing countries
- What does food market modernization look like?
- The contradictions of food marketing in developing cities
- Developing policy to improve food supply
- A discussion on planning
- A discussion on participation and challenges for planning
- Introduction to qualitative research as a tool for planning and field work agenda and preparation.
- Best practices report on market efficiency cases
- Reflection meetings and final presentation at MIT
Readings
- Ocampo, Jose Antonio. Entre Las Reformas y El Conflicto, Economía y Política en Colombia . Bogota, Colombia: Editorial Grupo Norma, 2004. ISBN: 9789580478270.
- Abello, Alberto. “La Economía Agridulce de la “Fragorosa” Cartagena.” Documento de trabajo para el Curso de Verano Cartagena conocimiento vital del Caribe, de la Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, 7 July 2004.
- Gaimo, Silvana. Cartagena de Indias, Sobrellevando la Crisis .
- Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums . London, UK: Verso, 2006, (selected chapters). ISBN: 9781844671601.
- Sen, Amartya. Poverty and Famines . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780198284635.
- Harrison, Kelly, Donald Henley, Harold Riley, and James Shaffer. Improving Food Marketing Systems in Developing Countries: Experiences from Latin America . Washington, DC: Department of Agricultural Economics, 1987, chapter 1. ISBN: 9789990414110.
- Savitt, Ronald. “Retail Change and Economic Development.” In Retailing Environments in Developing Countries. Edited by John Dawson, Allan M. Frindlay, and Ronan Paddison. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990, pp 16-29. ISBN: 9780415037396.
- Mittendorf, H. “Planning of Urban Wholesale Markets for Perishable Food with Particular Reference to Developing Countries.” Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1976.
- Castells, Manuel, and Alejandro Portes. “The World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics and Effects of the Informal Economy.” In the Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Counties . Baltimore, MD; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780801837364.
- “Associations of Market Traders: Their Roles and Potential For Further Development.” Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Service. Rome, 2005. ( PDF )
- McMichael, Phillp. “Introduction.” Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780275949662.
- Tinker, Irene. “ Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries . Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, (selections). ISBN: 9780195117110.
- Jayne, Thomas S. “Forces of Change Affecting African Food Markets: Implications for Public Policy. In The Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Globalization, Supply Chains and Smallholder Farmers. Edited by Ellen B. McCullough, Prabhu L. Pingall, and Kostas G. Stamoulis. London, UK: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Earthscan, 2008, pp. 109-139. ISBN: 9781844075690.
- Aragrande, Maurizio, and Olivio Argenti. “Studying Food and Distribution Systems to Cities in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition: Methodological and Operational Guide.” Food into Cities Collection . Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001. ( PDF - 1.8MB )
- Forero, Jaime. “El Sistema de Abastecimiento Alimentario de Bogotá: Análisis y Propuestas.” In Bogotá: Autonomía Agroalimentaria. Diálogos y Controversisas . Edited by Jaime Forero, Roman Vega, Juliana Millán, Sara Granados, Bladimir Rodriguez. Bogotá: Planeta Paz, 2006.
- Johnson, Steve. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software . New York, NY: Scribner, 2001. ISBN: 9780684868752.
- Vasconcellos, Eduardo A. “The Political Issue: Agents In Urban Transport Policy” Chapter 7 and “The Institutional Issue” Chapter 8. In Urban Transport, Environment and Equity: The Case for Developing Countries . London: Earthscan, 2001, pp. 75-83 and 84-95. ISBN: 9781853837272.
- North, Douglas C. Structure and Change in Economic History . Chapters 1, 5. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1982. ISBN: 9780393952414.
- Thompson, Phil. “Model for Organizing Communities: 2007.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.