Improving Urban Food Security through Developing Infrastructure and Services

This policy brief is informed by the findings of the ESRC-DFID-funded Consuming Urban Poverty Project (CUP) (formally called “Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa”) on work carried out in low-income neighbourhoods of Kitwe, Zambia, from 2016 to 2017. The central focus of the study was to understand the connections between poverty, governance and urban space. This brief presents key findings related to infrastructure and makes policy recommendations that seek to enable multiple development-related benefits through alternative approaches to improved infrastructure.