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Failure of Decentralisation in South African Local Government, The
Complexity and unanticipated consequences
A SIDDLE & T KOELBLE
The South African decentralised local government model has various instruments in place which, in theory, enable local government to achieve developmental objectives. Yet many South African municipalities are dysfunctional and incapable of performing their duties. This book examines the design of the local government framework and its contributing role in the crisis. Through empirical research conducted at 37 municipalities across the country, it finds that municipalities are frequently incapable of meeting the demands imposed upon them by a highly complex model of local government. The aim of this book is to promote an understanding of the difficulties that confront local government in South Africa and the causes of its failure. It suggests that a far simpler model which imposes less complex demands needs to be considered.
SUITABLE FOR
• Students of Political Science, Public Administration and Public Law
• Policy-makers in the field of local government and constitutional
development • NGOs.
food security in south africa
Human rights and entitlement perspectives
S FUKUDA-PARR & V TAYLOR (EDITORS)
Leading local and international researchers on food security and related policy work draw on Amartya Sen’s entitlement theory to identify the key drivers of hunger. They see food insecurity as a chronic, structurally based condition rather than only resulting from natural environmental disasters, temporary economic shocks and household vulnerabilities. The authors focus on short- and longer- term solutions to the systemic causes of unemployment, failing rural livelihoods and traditional subsistence production. They also emphasise the linkages between the social and economic dimensions of food insecurity and use an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to analyse why these conditions persist and what can be done to address them.
978 1 91989 505 5 978 1 92051 656 7 978 1 92051 670 3
2012
320 PAGES
ZAR R499.00 ZAR R466.00 ZAR R466.00
CONTENTS
• Foreword–OlivierDeSchutter Part I: Key concepts and issues
• Food security in South Africa: A
human rights and entitlement
perspective
• The right to food: A global perspective
• Istherighttofoodreallynecessary?
Part II: Who and where are the food- insecure households and individuals?
• FoodsecurityinSouthAfrica:Areview
of data and trends
• Changes in food security in South
Africa since the end of apartheid: Evidence using child malnourishment
978 1 77582 072 7 978 1 48511 566 3 2016
292 PAGES
ZAR R372.00 ZAR R347.00
• Food insecurity amongst urban households
• The gender dimensions of food insecurity: Women’s experiences of entitlements and deprivation in South Africa
Part III: Social and economic policies to strengthen exchange, transfer and production entitlements
• Achievingfoodsecuritythrough
social policies: Comprehensive social
protection for development
• Household-level food insecurity and
agriculture in South Africa
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