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  1. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (UCT)-led ESRC/DFID-funded Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa project, branded as “Consuming Urban Poverty: Food Systems Planning and Governance in Africa’s Secondary Cities” or “CUP”. This project focuses on three secondary cities in three different countries (to capture the diversity of secondary city types in SSA): Kisumu, Kenya; Kitwe, Zambia; Epworth, Zimbabwe.

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This work forms part of the Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa project, funded under the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research (Poverty in Urban Spaces theme). The financial support by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the UK Department for International Development [grant number ES/L008610/1] is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

    Jacqueline Borel-Saladin

  2. Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

    Susan Parnell

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Borel-Saladin, J., Parnell, S. The Metrics of African Urbanization. Urban Forum 28, 329–331 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-017-9322-3

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