Kenya: Kisumu
Diverse, Safe, Nutritious and Affordable foods for the urban poor in Kisumu.
HealthyFoodAfrica improves the sustainability and resilience of food systems and innovates practices and governance arrangements in ten localized, context-specific Food System Labs.
Using an interactive, multi-actor approach, HealthyFoodAfrica brings together social entrepreneurs, farmers, activists, businesses and policy makers to tackle specific challenges in the local food system. The initiatives fostered in the Food System Labs are supported by researchers and practitioners from Europe and Africa, who will also take part in enhancing and facilitating the learning processes within each lab and across them. Below you can read more about each Food System Labs and their activities.
Diverse, Safe, Nutritious and Affordable foods for the urban poor in Kisumu.
Maize value chain governance with smallholder farmers.
Improving supply, marketing and utilization of nutritious food in urban and pre-urban areas
Improving the diets of children and adolescents through urban farming in a peri-urban area
Enhancing use of fish by increased availability and strengthening of the agro-food chain
Fostering vegetable production for a sustainable food system that supplies the city
Capacity building, formal recognition and participation of food traders and vendors