Percy Toriro

• Municipal Development Partnership

The objective overall of this book is to examine the extent to which the Zimbabwean community has embraced the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1) as Zimbabwe‘s socio-economic and transformative and inclusive development blueprint. The chapters are based mainly on a desktop study involving critical interrogation of literature from other countrie...

The ideals and fundamentals of urban planning are largely to ensure habitable and liveable environments for the citizens. However, while planning is an apolitical profession that is supposed to advance human well-being and urban liveability, we argue that the planning process has been compromised by political interference that jeorpadises the reali...

Most local governments and utilities responsible for infrastructure provision and maintenance in Zimbabwe have huge infrastructure backlogs. This is in terms of both programmed maintenance and upgrades to cater for population growth and urban expansion. This is happening within a context of documented rapid urbanisation and population growth. Water...

Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban contexts and societal health. This paper focuses on the multiple relationships that exist between food and infrastructure to provide a thorough theoretical and empirical grounding to urgent work on urban food securit...

This chapter explores and confers ways to integrate land and the human environment to promote the growth of efficient Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Africa. Research & Development (R&D) enhancement has been one of the key critical aspects of promoting urban growth in the digital age and innovation in spatial planning. Creative and Innovative activ...

This chapter explores and confers ways to integrate land and the human environment to promote the growth of efficient Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Africa. Research & Development (R&D) enhancement has been one of the key critical aspects of promoting urban growth in the digital age and innovation in spatial planning. Creative and Innovative activ...

This chapter reviews the performance of master planning in an African city using the case of Harare, Zimbabwe. During the year 2020, the Harare Master Plan was undergoing a review. The Harare City Council was preparing a new master plan to supersede the existing statutory document which was prepared in the late 1980s and was concluded around 1990....

This chapter seeks to unpack matters on the role of NUA in reversing the alarming trend in food and nutrition insecurity, the main causes of malnutrition and constraints for people to improve their nutrition status and how can it respond to such matters. Desktop research was used for this study through document and literature review. Detailed and c...

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various...

Planners manage the built environment and settlements. The profession envisions the form of urban areas and are responsible for the different land use mixes and the facilities available for residents to use. They also impose rules that determine the uses that are permitted in a locality. At the site level, urban planners determine the buildings tha...

The chapter converses on the implications of informal food spaces to public health in urban areas. The study indicated that urban areas are dynamic and fluid due to their ever-changing forms, function and formula. As a result, maintaining formality in such environments has strongly appeared to be a challenge to the urban planning profession. Docume...

Increasingly there are many studies focusing on urban food systems as a whole and this systematic approach has been fruitful. Some components of the urban food system have also been examined individually. Some of the most frequently studied components of food systems are food production, reduction of food waste, the contribution of urban agricultur...

This chapter examines the link between food and city management in Zimbabwe. The increase in the rate of urbanisation has set up unprecedented challenges for feeding cities with affordable and healthy food. Urban food security and food systems are receiving growing attention at global level both North and South. Although, the issue of food and city...

Laws are some of the most important and effective instruments used by governments to regulate different areas of citizens’ lives. They are powerful because there are consequences associated with breaking laws. The intention of legislation is to create societies where all people are compelled to do what is good. The assumption inherent in legislatio...

In the wake of climate change and unfavourable urban policies, the future of effective food provision to Zimbabwe’s urban inhabitants remains blinkered. The chapter focuses on the need to promote sustainable urban agriculture as one of the major sources of livelihood for women and children especially. Urban Agriculture is noted to improve on food s...

This chapter examines the interface between urban governance and poverty, using the case study of Harare, Zimbabwe. The chapter focuses on the following specific urban policy areas that impact directly on the urban poor: access to land, mechanisms for citizen participation and voice, attitude towards the informal sector, attitude towards informal h...

Urban food security is a growing concern in many cities across the world due to the increasing global challenge to feed the world. This concern assumes increased prominence in the fast-growing cities of the Global South where most of the new urbanisation is taking place. As many cities in the Global North adopt a raft of measures to ensure their ci...

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various...

The coronavirus is affecting almost every part of the world. The impact of the virus has worsened the difficulties already confronting residents of the fast-growing cities of the developing world already suffering from many challenges, such as inadequate housing, growing poverty, poor urban environmental management, and high levels of unemployment...