ABSTRACT The theoretical argument that emerges from my empirical study argues that food provisioning systems in Johannesburg, as a potential lens to further investigation of food supply systems in the developing south cannot be classified within a traditional-modern dichotomy. This dissertation proposes a new conceptual device – a food provisioning continuum – which should inform research on African food supply systems in the future. The process of locating this rich case within a broader theoretical paradigm to validate it and to provide it discursive space, however, is not objective or without friction. I argue that it is possible to choose to locate rich empirical material in different conceptual frameworks, related not only to its applicability, but also to how the research may be valued and seen to extend knowledge. The expectation of the research community and the epistemological demand of new research, for a Masters dissertation is that the scholarly work will build on and extend existing knowledge. It is assumed that thorough research will challenge the boundaries of knowledge and that the candidate, after having undergone this academic rite of passage, will graduate from being a student to being a colleague within a research community. However, the process of creating new theory and advancing existing theory is not quite an objective or frictionless process as it first appears. Research in the south is validated more highly if it is located within, or builds upon international/northern theory even by research forums in the south like the NRF. The pressure for researchers from the south to locate their research in conceptual frameworks from the north – in order to be validated – appears to be one of the rules of the game. While this is validation as part of an academic exercise may be necessary, the practise entrenches spatial or geographical hierarchies within academia and academic discourse. The epistemological process of forging new theoretical frontiers is thus a constructed, unnatural space fraught with less critical valuing systems than are expected to be present within academia, no less within the discipline of geography.

La Escuela Pública de Producción Agrícola en Pachacamac ofrece la carrera de producción Agrícola. En ese sentido, el Proyecto busca impulsar las actividades comerciales de productos agrícolas ya existentes del distrito de Pachacamac a través del diseño de espacios académicos de acuerdo a los nuevos estándares pedagógicos incluyendo espacios de enseñanza agrícola, que potencien el aprendizaje y la investigación. Así mismo, la propuesta busca favorecer a la comunidad con espacios sociales que difundan la cultura Agrícola de Lima para una mejor alimentación de la ciudad. La investigación sustenta las relaciones del edificio educativo y el paisaje natural. Las relaciones entre la naturaleza y la escuela se presentan aprovechando los recursos culturales, morfológicos y climáticos del entorno en la propuesta a través de la forma del edificio, el emplazamiento, de la fusión espacial y visual de lo social y de lo privado, de la materialidad y de tecnologías sustentables. beneficiando así al paisaje con la arquitectura, que es finalmente la herramienta de trabajo de los estudiantes. (net Works) / The public agricultural production school in Pachacamac offers the agricultural production career, in this respect, the project seeks to empower the existing commercial activities of agricultural products of the Pachacamac district through the design of academic spaces according to the new pedagogical standards including learning spaces for agriculture that enhance learning and research activities. In other way, the proposal also seeks to favor the community development with social spaces that disseminate the Agricultural Culture of Lima for a better feed of citizen The thesis look to maintain the relations of the educational building, the peri-urban landscape and the natural elements, taking advantage of the cultural, morphological and climatic resources of the environment in the proposal of spaces; this is prove through the shape of the building, orientation, the visual relations, materiality and sustainable technologies, benefiting the relationship between the students and nature that is finally the principal work tool. / Tesis

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