Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities

An intersectional analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12242425
AutoresHelen Mackay (0000-0001-5516-1109, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas375-396
Data de publicação2019-05-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Urbanization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0956247819847346
OpenAlexW2946490008
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas44

This article arises from an interest in African urbanization and in the food, farming and nutritional transitions that some scholars present as integral to urban life. The paper investigates personal urban food environments, food sources and access strategies in two secondary Ugandan cities, Mbale and Mbarara, drawing on in-depth interviews and applying an intersectional lens. Food sources were similar across dimensions of difference but food access strategies varied. My findings indicate that socioeconomic circumstance (class) was the most salient influence shaping differences in daily food access strategies. Socioeconomic status, in turn, interacted with other identity aspects, an individual’s asset base and broader structural inequalities in influencing urban food environments. Rural land and rural connections, or multispatiality, were also important for food-secure urban lives. The work illuminates geometries of advantage and disadvantage within secondary cities, and highlights similarities and differences between food environments in these cities and Uganda’s capital, Kampala

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