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The SDGs, Food Security and Urbanization in the Global South

As governments develop policies to achieve SDG 2 in rapidly urbanizing countries, the need to pay particular attention to the role of the informal economy, non-food issues, pro-poor pricing structures and healthy food consumption patterns will increase. The case studies in Mexico, China, Kenya and India have highlighted important food security challenges facing urban dwellers […]

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The State of Household Food Security in Nairobi, Kenya

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This report presents the results of a city-wide household food security survey of 1,434 Nairobi households, conducted by the Hungry Cities Partnership and the University of Nairobi. Among the key findings was that 70% of households in Kenya’s capital experience food insecurity, with one-quarter severely food insecure. As the first city-wide survey of household food

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Scarcity, Government, Population: The Problem of Food in Colonial Kenya, c. 1900–1952

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– PhD Thesis – Food security in Africa is a foremost development challenge. Dominant approaches to addressing food security concentrate on availability and increasing production. This ‘productionist’ focus arguably limits the capacity of government policies to address contemporary food problems. It does so by obscuring both the specific food insecurity dynamics linked to the continent’s

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Compounding Vulnerability: A Model of Urban Household Food Security

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The efficiency of the infrastructure systems in cities will define the extent to which dystopic visions of urban futures become a reality. At the level of the individual household, vulnerability to hazards in cities is defined, in part, by the ability to access essential resources and services. This discussion paper proposes a model to help

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The Urban Food System of Nairobi, Kenya

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Nairobi is a city of stark contrasts. Nearly half a million of its three million residents live in abject poverty in some of Africa’s largest slums, yet the Kenyan capital is also an international and regional hub. In East Africa, rapid urbanization is stretching existing food and agriculture systems as growing cities struggle to provide

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Poverty and Uneven Food Security in Urban Slums

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Despite increased recognition that urban slum dwellers are both extremely vulnerable and highly underserved, the national and international commitment to address urban food crises is constrained by a dearth of information. In Nairobi, Kenya, an estimated 60 % of the population live in slums or slum-like conditions. On average, the Nairobi poor spend 40–50 %

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Hungry Cities of the Global South

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The recent inclusion of an urban Sustainable Development Goal in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda represents an important acknowledgement of the reality of global urbanization and the many social, economic, infrastructural and political challenges posed by the human transition to a predomi- nantly urban world. However, while the SDG provides goals for housing, transportation, land

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Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Urban Slums: Experiences from Nairobi, Kenya

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Food and nutrition security is critical for economic development due to the role of nutrition in healthy growth and human capital development. Slum residents, already grossly affected by chronic poverty, are highly vulnerable to different forms of shocks, including those arising from political instability. This study describes the food security situation among slum residents in

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Hungry Cities: A Critical Review of Urban Food Security Research in Sub-Saharan African Cities

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There has been renewed interest in the issue of food in cities in sub-Saharan Africa. A similar renewal has been noted in the North American and European contexts. However, the political, practical, and ideological starting points of these research endeavors are quite different. This paper presents a historical and political lens through which the trajectories

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