Sustainable Food Systems: Innovations and Challenges in Southern Africa

Over the past two decades, Southern African countries have gained increasing recognition in global agricultural markets, yet they continue to face significant internal and external challenges. Domestically, low productivity, limited production capacity, and weak trade structures constrain agricultural growth and competitiveness. Externally, restricted access to agricultural finance and modern technologies, together with institutional limitations, further impede progress. Moreover, climate change disproportionately affects farming systems across the region, intensifying vulnerability and food insecurity. This contributed volume brings together scholarly research on sustainable food systems in Southern Africa, key challenges to sustainability, and the policy frameworks shaping the region's agricultural transformation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability, the rural economy, food supply chains and agritech, as well as on business in Africa more broadly.