Addressing food security in African cities

Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson ()
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Jane Battersby: University of Cape Town
Vanessa Watson: University of Cape Town

Nature Sustainability, 2018, vol. 1, issue 4, 153-155

Abstract: In sub-Saharan Africa, the food system impacts on a number of urban development issues such as poverty, unemployment and poor health. Informal traders meet the food needs of many poor urban households. However, supermarket chains are changing this, demanding particular policy and planning responses.

Date: 2018
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