Kenya
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Configurations of COVID-19 Resilience Among Women Food Vendors in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
Women food vendors are central to urban informal food systems in Nairobi’s informal settlements. They connect low-in- come households to accessible and affordable food while sustaining their own livelihoods. However, they operate these enterprises under conditions of income precarity, limited capital, unstable demand, food perishability, and constrained urban informality. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified these vulnerabilities,
Inside the System, Outside the Law: Informality and Political and Economic Geographies of Exclusion in Nairobi’s Food System
Rapid urbanisation across sub-Saharan Africa is reshaping urban food systems and shifting the geography of food insecurity from rural to urban areas. Using Nairobi, Kenya, as a case study, this paper examines how governance systems reproduce political and economic geographies of exclusion for the informal economy within a rapidly transforming urban food system. Drawing on
Architecture for Spatially Just Food System Planning with and for Young South Sudanese Refugees in Urban Kenya
Challenges to the health and wellbeing of youth refugees in Kenya are well documented, particularly in refugee camps. However, amid protracted crises in the region, changes in refugee camp legislation and reduced funding are driving the further urbanization of refugees, necessitating a greater focus on understanding the hardships, movements, and challenges young urban refugees face.
The Politics of Survival: South-South Migration, Urban Informality, Governance, and the Food Security Nexus in Nairobi, Kenya
— PhD Thesis — This dissertation contributes to the scholarship on South-South migration by integrating food security into the analysis of urban governance and migrant livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. While migration and development have been widely examined, their connection to food systems remains underexplored, particularly in urban settings where informality, displacement, and transnational mobility converge. The research