Africa Misunderstood

Jamal, Vali; Weeks, John

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“…This general decline took place mostly in the 1970s and 1980s, as depicted in Table 2. Data in Table 2 suggest what other observers have made clear: In Kampala, the minimum wage quickly became rather irrelevant to the way in which urban wage earners actually made ends meet, and urban households had to rapidly diversify their sources of income in order to survive the fall in real wages (Bigsten and Kayizzi-Mugerwa 1992;Jamal and Weeks 1993). Data for trends in urban poverty in Kampala, comparable to those depicted in Table 3 incomes have risen somewhat since then, unemployment has increased, and, at least in some cases, the incidence and depth of urban poverty has increased, exacerbating urban inequalities.…”

Section: Urban Food Supplymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Guyer's work presaged some of the issues raised by Jamal and his colleagues at the ILO (Jamal 1988;Jamal and Weeks 1993). Jamal and Weeks argued that much of the Ghana and Uganda were both included in Jamal and Weeks' analysis.…”

Section: Beyond Urban Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the case of both Accra and Kampala, the major response at the level of the household to the urban economic crisis and the ensuing policies of structural adjustment has been the imperative to diversify income sources in the face of declining real income (Brydon and Legge 1996;Jamal and Weeks 1993;Bigsten and Kayizzi-Mugerwa 1992).…”

Section: The Response: Changes In Livelihoods and The Household Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Maxwell¹

1999

World Development

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Section: Urban Food Supplymentioning

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Section: Beyond Urban Biasmentioning

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Section: The Response: Changes In Livelihoods and The Household Economymentioning

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Maxwell¹

1999

World Development

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“…Growing intra-urban inequality is made evident in the research by Jamal and Weeks (1993), Braun et al (1993), Hulme and McKay (2005) and Montgomery (2004). In fact, the differences in terms of food access and consumption between income groups are particularly stark (FAO 2001, Maxwell 1999).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

Floro

Swain

2013

World Development

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Rising urban poverty and food insecurity are serious concerns in developing countries today. Urban livelihoods and coping strategies remain poorly understood however. This paper examines the response of female and male household members in marginalized urban (predominantly squatter) areas to the risk of food shortage in terms of occupational choice. More specifically, we use probit analyses to investigate whether household vulnerability or the need to provide self-insurance for food security, alongside gender roles, influence a worker's choice of enterprise activity. We focus our investigation on self-employed women and men using a data set drawn from the 1496 individual sample in 14 urban squatter communities in Bolivia, Ecuador, Philippines and Thailand. Our findings show that selfemployed women in households facing higher risk of food insecurity are likely to engage in food-related enterprise activities and this is especially true in Philippines and Thailand. This suggests the role of occupational choice in in helping urban squatter households in mitigating the risk of food shortage through the selection of an income-generating activity that allows the direct use of unsold inventories for food consumption. Keywords: food security, self-employment, occupational choice, urban informal sector 1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of Thomas Hungerford and the participants at 2009 IAFFE conference (Boston) , the Centre for Microfinance seminar (Luxembourg), the IFMR seminar( Chennai India) and the Department of Economics seminar, Uppsala University.

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“…The rapid urbanisation of Sub-Saharan Africa from a purely rural-agrarian society to a city based one is an interesting phenomenon to study and it has been of concern to many scholars as documented in several studies [3][4][5][6][7][8]. The transformation of African society is not only physical but encompasses sociocultural, economic, political and metaphysical in nature.…”

Section: Dynamics Of Change Urbanization Persistence Of Tradition Amentioning

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Traditional food markets, power relations and waste management: a qualitative study

Odeyale

Omole

Sodagar

et al. 2012

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The rapid urbanization of Sub-Saharan Africa from a purely agrarian society to a city based one is an interesting phenomenon to study. However, recent studies have shown that there is a lack of understanding of socio-cultural factors and subtle power relations that brought about these transformations, especially in developing society. Thus, the paper reports a qualitative study in which interviews were conducted and sizeable numbers of open ended questionnaires were administered and analysed based on the Actor Network Theory. The study examines the often overlooked factors that have impacted on the growth of the built environment, by taking a closer look at the urban centre in relation to the main food market called Oja Oba located in the centre of the city of Akure, Nigeria. During the course of the field research, respondents observed that the general appearance of the city, urban lifestyle and city liveability is directly impacted by the issue of food waste, waste generation and waste disposal. This paper concludes that in the drive towards a sustainable city in the developing world and effective waste management there is need to understand the layers of underlying socio-cultural issues that prompted these changes which are subtle and sometime quite sudden with intended and unintended consequences.

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Africa Misunderstood

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The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households

Traditional food markets, power relations and waste management: a qualitative study

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