The characteristics of the urban food system in Kitwe, Zambia

Fuseini, Issahaka; Battersby, Jane; Jain, Niraj

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“…In Kitwe, 705 retailers were mapped in the city's central market area and the two neighborhoods in which the household surveys had been conducted. From this mapping, 389 retailers were surveyed [46]. In Kisumu, 2185 retailers were mapped in the city center, at the city's main central retail and wholesale markets, and in a low income neighborhood.…”

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“…However, it is important to note these traders are hampered by the same infrastructure deficiencies impacting household utilization. They also commonly lack storage and refrigeration, meaning that they buy in relatively small units to ensure regular throughput of products and therefore food safety [46]. Similarly, traders are also impacted by the high cost of energy, and a number of them use unsafe energy sources to operate [70].…”

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The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk

Battersby

2019

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The idea that food insecurity can be resolved by increasing the presence of supermarkets has been gaining traction in African cities and has recently gained political traction in Africa. This paper interrogates the potential value and risks associated with the adoption of the discourse of the food desert in the African context. The paper draws on findings from a households survey, neighborhoods-scale food retail mapping and surveys, and city-wide supermarket mapping conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Kisumu (Kenya), and Kitwe (Zambia). Following a discussion of why the concept is gaining traction, the paper identifies false assumptions associated with the food desert framing in Africa, namely: supermarkets provide better access to healthier food, low-income areas have poor access to healthy food; and food security can be reduced to economic and physical accessibility. The paper concludes that although the food desert concept may be valuable for African researchers to provoke debates about systemic inequality, the food desert policy narrative should be rejected as it is ill-informed by the lived experiences of food insecurity in African cities and may promote policy interventions that erode rather than enhance the capacity of the food system to meet the food security needs of African urbanites.

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The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk

Battersby

2019

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“…For example, researchers working in this area must consider all the activities involved in the food chain and the role of informality in accelerating nutrition security. Although various methods exist for analyzing different aspects of the food system, systems modelling techniques have been adopted in the informal food sector (Fuseini et al 2018 ). Such system modelling techniques are few and currently being developed (Global Panel 2017 ), supporting the RQ+ assessment, which placed this project as being implemented in a moderate-risk data environment.…”

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Analyzing the contributions of transdisciplinary research to the global sustainability agenda in African cities

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It is almost 6 years since the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted, and countries have less than 10 years to achieve the set targets. Unlike most of the world, sub-Saharan African countries have reported only minimal progress, one that the COVID-19 pandemic has unfortunately disrupted. Transdisciplinary research (TDR) has been conceptualized as important for achieving sustainability goals such as the SDGs. In this paper we (i) analyze the contributions of the five TDR projects toward the achievements of the SDGs at the city level in Africa, and (ii) explore the interactions between the assessed SDGs across the five projects. The projects’ contributions towards the achievements of the SDGs were examined in three thematic areas: (i) contexts, (ii) processes and (iii) products. The five projects were funded under the Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA) programme. The projects were being implemented in nine cities across five African countries Accra (Ghana), Kumasi (Ghana), Korhogo (Ivory Coast), Abuja Metro (Nigeria), Mbour (Senegal), Cape Town (South Africa), Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (South Africa), Grahamstown (South Africa) and Kampala (Uganda) and data were collected on each of the five projects in these cities. The contextual contributions include co-analysis and reflection on policy and institutional silos and social innovations amenable to contextual complexity. A shift in how actors perceived and conceptualized sustainability challenges and the role of the projects as transformative social agents constituted the two main process contributions. Tool development, virtual models and maps, and handbook are the product contributions by the projects. Our analysis of the SDG interactions indicated the need for cross-sectoral collaborations to ensures resource use efficiency, knowledge and experience sharing, and seamless flow of information and data to accelerate the SDG implementation.

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“…Food-based livelihoods often have low barriers to entry (both in terms of capital and bureaucratic requirements) and are therefore accessible livelihoods for marginalised people (Battersby, Marshak and Mngqibisa 2016;Bellwood-Howard et al 2021;Moussavi, Liguori and Mehta 2016;Wegerif 2020). Various case studies have found that length of business operation in urban food-based livelihoods seems to be bimodal, with clusters of long-standing businesses operating for more than ten years, but equally many businesses having been in operation for fewer than five years (Battersby et al 2016;Fuseini, Battersby and Jain 2018). The informal sector generally is characterised by high 'churn' rates (Nackerdien and Yu 2019), as people transition into and out of employment and self-employment.…”

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Equity in Food Systems Livelihoods: A Review of Conceptualisations, Approaches, and Actions

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2023

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Food systems employ billions of people across the world, many of whom are socially and economically marginalised. The livelihoods within the food systems these people rely on tend to be precarious and low in economic return, exacerbating social and economic inequality while preventing food systems from improving their ecological sustainability. In this paper, we review the different ways in which equitable livelihoods within food systems are conceptualised across academic communities, and what interventions are suggested to make food systems livelihoods more equitable. We analyse the tensions and complementarity between these different approaches and suggest an inter- and trans-disciplinary methodology.

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The characteristics of the urban food system in Kitwe, Zambia

Cited by 5 publications

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The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk

The Food Desert as a Concept and Policy Tool in African Cities: An Opportunity and a Risk

Analyzing the contributions of transdisciplinary research to the global sustainability agenda in African cities

Equity in Food Systems Livelihoods: A Review of Conceptualisations, Approaches, and Actions

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