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Giving voice to the voiceless: How COVID-19 is impacting Nairobi slum residents, in their own words

COVID-19 has only further complicated the challenge of feeding growing cities across Africa and the rest of the world. Researchers are listening to vulnerable urban populations to help develop better, sustainable food system solutions.

date:  09/06/2020

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The food systems that serve billions of low-income urban consumers around the world are notoriously hard to analyze, consisting of a multitude of actors from fork to farm, formal and traditional activities and partial or even contradictory data. Nonetheless, data on these food systems is critical to support improved decision-making, data-driven policy insights and future research on nutrition and food security.

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