Kisumu
Learn more about Kisumu's food system below
City overview
Kisumu County, located in Kenya on the banks of Lake Victoria, faces significant challenges including high poverty rates, inadequate infrastructure, and a high disease burden. The city is undergoing resurgence in trade and tourism, aiming to become an investment and tourist destination. Encouragingly, Kisumu has made progress in recent year to bring malnutrition rates down. However, rapid urbanization poses a challenge in feeding the growing population and informal settlements still face high levels of severe acute malnutrition among children. In response, the county has implemented food system and agri-nutrition strategies, with accompanying investments into nutrition security interventions. Several initiatives, such as farmer field schools and aquaculture programs, aim to enhance food safety, security, and nutrition education.
City's food system ambitions
Food insecurity was identified in the City’s Resilience Strategy (2019) as a stress. Cape Town’s supply chains are sophisticated and mature, but unemployment and high food costs hinders access.
Programmes in place
Food Systems Programme (2021) and Implementation Programme (2022). Work ranges across City mandates and includes governance and policy, currently focused on spatial planning and informal sector support.
Challenges
Food Systems Programme (2021) and Implementation Programme (2022). Work ranges across City mandates and includes governance and policy, currently focused on spatial planning and informal sector support.
Achievements
Food Systems Programme (2021) and Implementation Programme (2022). Work ranges across City mandates and includes governance and policy, currently focused on spatial planning and informal sector support.
"This could be a relatively long quote from Cape Town representative about the food system and how they want to improve it, or maybe about their achievements or challenges." - Tamsin Faragher, Principal Resilience Officer, City of Cape Town
Status of food and nutrition security
- Access to healthy and nutritious food, especially for children
- Strong informal sector
- Multi-functional centres that improve food security and provide community resilience Improved circular economies