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Governance: Informal food markets in Africa’s cities

In: 2017 Global Food Policy Report

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  • Resnick, Danielle

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Urbanization is moving fastest in Africa south of the Sahara, with major implications for food security and other governance challenges. Large urban poor populations rely heavily on the informal economy for accessible, affordable food. Most eggs, meat, fish, and milk sold to the urban poor are from informal markets. Food security policies in urban Africa face institutional, administrative, and political challenges: Lack of local mandate for food security under decentralization policies. Lack of cross-sectoral, cross-ministerial policy integration. Political contest over cities that occasionally leads to violence. Government interventions have focused on control, regulation, and often violent eradication of the urban informal food economy.

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  • Resnick, Danielle, 2017. "Governance: Informal food markets in Africa’s cities," IFPRI book chapters, in: 2017 Global Food Policy Report, chapter 6, pages 50-57, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  • Handle: RePEc:fpr:ifpric:9780896292529-06
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    4. Sophie Bruin & Just Dengerink & Jasper Vliet, 2021. "Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(4), pages 781-798, August.

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