Feeding Dar es Salaam: a symbiotic food system perspective

Wegerif, Marc

doi:10.18174/414390

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“…This has an impact on women's time, finances, and well-being, thus affecting their ability to assert land rights and benefit from land use. Interventions, such as those to increase agricultural production, that do not take this into consideration, can add to women's burden with negative outcomes for their quality of life [9,[47][48][49].…”

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Land Inequality Trends and Drivers

Wegerif

Guereña²

2020

Land

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Land related inequality is a central component of the wider inequality that is one of the burning issues of our society today. It affects us all and directly determines the quality of life for billions of people who depend on land and related resources for their livelihoods. This paper explores land inequality based on a wide scoping of available information and identifies the main trends and their drivers. A wider conceptualization of what constitutes land inequality is suggested in response to shifts in how power is concentrated within the agri-food system. Land inequality is the difference in the quantity and value of land people have access to, the relative strengths of their land tenure rights, and about the appropriation of value derived from the land and its use. More data gathering and research needs to be done to better understand and monitor land inequality. Despite data limitations, what can be seen globally is a growing concentration of land in larger holdings leaving the majority of farmers, along with indigenous people and other communities, with less land. As importantly, elites and large corporations are appropriating more of the value within the agri-food sector, leaving farmers and workers with a shrinking proportion of the value produced. A framework is offered to explain the self-perpetuating nature of land inequalities that involve the mutually reinforcing concentration of both wealth and power. This is an unsustainable situation that can only be effectively addressed through challenging the fundamental drivers of accumulation by the few.

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Section: Land Inequality Further Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land Inequality Trends and Drivers

Wegerif

Guereña²

2020

Land

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“…With this as a starting point, following the food [29]-starting with the eaters and the foods most important to them and following these foods back to the primary producers-becomes an important research methodology for understanding existing foodscapes. It would be possible to apply this and other approaches used for our research [32] to usefully map foodscapes through shorter interventions than the lengthy ethnographic work that informed this paper.…”

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“…The field research was carried out by the first author from November 2011 to the end of July 2015 and combined observation, accompaniment and semi-structured and informal interviews and conversations with social actors involved in food supplies as well as a range of eaters in Dar es Salaam [31,32]. In depth information has been gathered from 174 respondents from different parts of the food system.…”

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“…By conversation we refer to the informal and often short conversations held, for example, with dozens of different busy traders in markets visited and with farmers and traders over beers in village bars on many evenings. The extensive use of transport led to the use and development of the "ride-along" as a methodology [32]. Accompaniment of people combined with observation has been invaluable and involved going into fields (Figure 1), spending time at markets (Figure 3), traveling with transporters, and of course eating with people.…”

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Exploring the Staple Foodscape of Dar es Salaam

Wegerif

Wiskerke

2017

Sustainability

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The city region foodscape is a relational space of spatially proximate as well as more distant relations. The current understanding of city region foodscapes will be enhanced by more analyses of what is happening in the African and Asian cities where rapid population growth and urbanization, with all its challenges and opportunities, is predominantly taking place. This paper explores the city foodscape of one such city, the rapidly growing Dar es Salaam with over 4.5 million inhabitants. By following some important foods for eaters in the city, this paper draws a picture of the changing shape and nature of Dar es Salaam's foodscape and draws out lessons for debates on city region food systems and urban food planning. It is found that key staple foods are coming from the rural hinterland through a food system that is not part of or modeled on the globally dominant corporate food system and as such represents a working alternative. This food system neither fits within administrative boundaries nor relies primarily on local production. We argue that more academic and policy attention needs to be given to understanding and reinforcing such middle-ground, neither local nor global, food systems that are delivering at city feeding scale.

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“…The resilience and growth of urban food markets, supply chains, and informal food vending has recently been documented in a number of studies in East Africa (Kirimi et al, 2011;Alarcon et al, 2017;Wegerif, 2017). Supermarkets have had considerable difficulty expanding their reach and still tend to cater for a small number of higherincome urbanites.…”

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Revisiting the African supermarket revolution: The case of Windhoek, Namibia

Kazembe

Crush

Wagner

2020

Development Southern Africa

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Africa is rapidly urbanising and urban food systems are being transformed. Some have argued that this transformation is driven by a supermarket revolution akin to that in North America, Europe and Latin America. Others suggest that the supermarket revolution model oversimplifies complex African realities and that urban food systems are experiencing uneven supermarket penetration in the face of resilient informal food sectors. This paper focuses on Windhoek, Namibia, showing that the city's food system is dominated by South African and local supermarket chains. Since the end of apartheid, South African supermarket chains have expanded their operations into Namibia. Supermarket domination of Windhoek's urban food system is a function of proximity of South Africa and integration into South African supply chains. In other African countries, supermarket penetration has been much slower and is even being reversed. Explanations for uneven penetration in different countries require greater contextualisation and more case study research.

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Feeding Dar es Salaam: a symbiotic food system perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 74 publications

Land Inequality Trends and Drivers

Land Inequality Trends and Drivers

Exploring the Staple Foodscape of Dar es Salaam

Revisiting the African supermarket revolution: The case of Windhoek, Namibia

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