This collaborative and comparative paper deals with the impact of Covid-19 on the use and
governance of public space and street trade in particular in two major African cities. The …

Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the
scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a …

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but this urbanization process is not well
understood, in intermediate or secondary cities in particular. Secondary cities will be home …

Many writers have effectively captured the emergence, progression, framings and limitations
of the concepts of urban resilience (see Béné et al., 2018), crisis and disaster management …

This assessment of Kisumu's food system seeks to scrutinize food poverty as an indicator of
the workings of persistent, pervasive, and systemic urban poverty. The urban food system …

The world population is growing and shifting in character from to predominantly rural to
increasingly urban. It is projected that by 2050, two thirds of the world's population will be …

We conducted a cross-sectional study to provide an overview primary school children food
environment in two urban settings in Kenya. Six schools, catering to children from low …

This chapter discusses three comparative projects that were all, at least partially, created
through the replication of research across the Mistra Urban Futures cities. At the start of …

In developed and developing countries, the livelihoods of a lot of people in peri-urban areas
depend on the informal economy (Coulibaly & Li 2020; Farrington 2001; Harrison & McVey …

The 'food environment'of cities can be defined as the location and type of food sources, as
well as the broader environmental factors that affect the production, retail and consumption …