June 2015
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Based on participatory research in Nairobi, this paper aims to address the invisibility of vendors in informal settlements and to inform more appropriate, inclusive urban food security strategies.
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March 2014
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Street vendors play an important role in securing access to food for the residents of low-income settlements in many cities. Yet they are often seen as providing unsafe food and contributing to environmental degradation. In Nairobi, the local federation of the urban poor, Muungano wa Wanavijiji, set out to explore how to improve food safety and work with street vendors and livestock keepers, who are in most cases also local residents. This briefing describes how community-led mapping, including innovative techniques such as balloon mapping, helps create knowledge, and identify new initiatives that reflect local communities’ needs and priorities.
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... As Duminy notes in Chapter 5, the dominant engagement of local governments with the food system has been through regulation for food safety. However, as the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) have illustrated, food safety issues emanating from food trade do not have their genesis in the traders themselves but rather in infrastructure inadequacies at the wider neighbourhood scale, including uncollected rubbish, and inadequate water and sanitation provision (Ahmed et al. 2014). ...
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March 2014
... This study took place in Nairobi, Kenya, where there are over 200 informal settlements that are home to over two million people; informal settlements account for over 60 % of Nairobi's population yet only occupy about 5 % of the city's land [2,47]. The study is set within one of the largest clusters of informal settlements in Nairobi, Mukuru (home to over 150,000 families), which is located in Embakasi South and Makadara sub-counties of Nairobi on 650 acres of privately and publicly owned land in an industrial area [37]. ...
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June 2015