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1 Haggblade, S.; Hazell, P. B. R.; Reardon, T. (Eds.) 2007. Transforming the rural nonfarm economy: opportunities and threats in the developing world. Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 490p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.9 G000 HAG Record No: H041017)
2 de Zeeuw, H.; Drechsel, Pay. (Eds.) 2015. Cities and agriculture: developing resilient urban food systems. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. 431p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047224)
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3 Simons, L. 2015. Changing the food game: market transformation strategies for sustainable agriculture. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing. 248p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 SIM Record No: H047235)
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4 Goodwin, L. 2013. Reducing food waste to help tackle climate change. In Brittlebank, W.; Saunders, J. (Eds.). Climate action 2013-2014. [Produced for COP19 - United Nations Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 11-22 November 2013]. London, UK: Climate Action; Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). pp.125-128.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 577.22 G000 BRI Record No: H047249)
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5 Gebauer, H.; Gebrezgabher, Solomie. 2018. Power from swine manure for industry's internal use (Sadia, Concordia, Brazil) - Case Study. In Otoo, Miriam; Drechsel, Pay (Eds.). Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.162-171.
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6 Reynoso-Lobo, J.; Rao, Krishna C.; Schoebitz, L.; Strande, L. 2018. Power from manure and slaughterhouse waste for industry's internal use (SuKarne, Mexico) - Case Study. In Otoo, Miriam; Drechsel, Pay (Eds.). Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.172-181.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048639)
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7 Odero, J.; Rao, Krishna C.; Karanja, N. 2018. Power from slaughterhouse waste (Nyongara Slaughter House, Dagorretti, Kenya) - Case Study. In Otoo, Miriam; Drechsel, Pay (Eds.). Resource recovery from waste: business models for energy, nutrient and water reuse in low- and middle-income countries. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.248-256.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048646)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048873)
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Recent studies have examined the urban metabolism of cities using urban consumption as a proxy for food inflows but very few studies have aimed at quantifying the role of cities as trade hubs and nutrient sinks of their hinterlands. We therefore examined the linkages between food and animal feed supply, their places of production and nutrient flows through the urban system in the two West African cities of Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Using primary data on food and feed flows, and secondary data to assess the transformation of these flows into nutrient terms, we show that, besides urban consumption, the function of the two study sites as trade hubs significantly determines nutrient flows. In Tamale, > 50% of the nutrient inflows was neither consumed nor was lost in situ but left that city again for other destinations. At least 30% of the incoming cereals was stored in the city for later consumption or export. Ouagadougou relied more on imported goods with 40% of N imported from foreign countries compared to Tamale where only 10% of the N was imported, thus contributing to heavier nutrient extraction in remote production areas.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050000)
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With malnutrition recognised as a key public health issue, attention has been placed on how individuals can make better decisions to attain food and nutrition security. Nevertheless, food practice entails a complex set of decisions that are not fully understood. This paper interrogates the focus on food choice by investigating how socio-economic relations shape practices of food provisioning. Given the surge of behavioural approaches in development economics and our focus on a middle-income country, we contextualise food choice in the transformations of the conceptualisations of decision-making in development economics. We draw on mixed-method evidence on food consumption practices among schoolchildren in Accra, Ghana. We find that the food decision-making process is complex in that it entails multiple moments and people, and embodies contradictory motivations. Decisions are negotiated outcomes reflecting social relations of power among the actors involved. Socio-economic inequality fragments the urban food environment and material living conditions. Furthermore, the concentration of capital gives the food industry the power to shape material and cultural relations to food in ways that extraordinarily limit the scope for individual choice. This is a critical case study to understand the contemporary dynamics of malnutrition in the urban Global South, with broader relevance for the analysis of food poverty elsewhere.
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