Document Type
Hungry Cities Paper
Publication Date
2023
Department
Balsillie School of International Affairs
Abstract
The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) initiated a 7-year programme of food system research in eight cities of the Global South in January 2015: Mexico City, Mexico; Kingston, Jamaica; Windhoek, Namibia; Cape Town, South Africa; Maputo, Mozambique; Nairobi, Kenya; Bangalore, India; and Nanjing, China. This paper describes the research process in the four African cities of Cape Town, Maputo, Nairobi, and Windhoek. The HCP data provide rich and context-specific information useful in avoiding generalizations in theory and inserting a Southern and African perspective into wider food studies and global policy debates. The paper describes and compares the survey methodology in the four cities and then, as a legacy for other researchers, the process of preparing the data sets for open access at an institutional repository, Datafirst.
Recommended Citation
Haysom, G., McDougall, B., Owuor, S., Nickanor, N., Raimundo, I., Kazembe, L., Woolfrey, L. and Crush, J. (2023). Opening Access to Urban Food Security Data in Africa from the Hungry Cities Partnership (No. 60). Hungry Cities Partnership Discussion Papers. Retrieved from http://hungrycities.net
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