Supermarket Expansion and the Informal Food Economy in Southern African Cities: Implications for Urban Food Security

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Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: Transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation (2014, background): “In many African cities, urban agriculture is also providing co-benefits for farmers and vendors through the linkage of producers to big outlets such as supermarkets and chain stores through contractual arrangements (Crush and Frayne, 2011).”
The Crisis of Food Insecurity in African Cities (2012, background): “Urban agriculture proved to be far less important to poor households in the surveyed cities than anticipated (Table 8).(39) Around 80% of households did not grow any of their own food at all and only 3% obtained any income from the sale of home produce.”