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Heather Mackay

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Doing things their way? Food, farming and health in two Ugandan cities

Författare

  • H. Mackay
  • F. Mugagga
  • L. Kakooza
  • Linley Chiwona Karltun

Summary, in English

This paper presents new data on urban households’ agriculture, food environments and non-communicable disease (obesity, diabetes, hypertension) in two intermediate-sized Ugandan cities (Mbale and Mbarara). Nutrition transition theory suggests that fast-foods, eating out and supermarket shopping, together with sedentary urban lifestyles and less agricultural activity, are drivers of growing non-communicable disease burden. We explore these claims using statistics from a 2015 socio-economic and anthropometric survey of 1995 households. Results indicate that these cities are already experiencing non-communicable diseases, despite a lack of advanced food system and nutritional transitions. Surveyed households generally had low or medium dietary diversity, and a diet pattern and an agricultural practice primarily geared towards staple foods. Food transfers (mainly staples) from rural relatives were common, particularly for agricultural households. These farming households also had better income status than non-farming households. Experience of food insecurity was relatively common. Nevertheless, high prevalence and strongly gendered patterns of obesity were identified. In contrast to some theorising of the farming practice of urban-based households, there was little evidence that such agriculture was fuelled by poverty, vulnerability or migrant status. Findings also imply that there are other drivers of epidemiologic change in these cities than those suggested by nutrition transition theory.

Publiceringsår

2017

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

147-170

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Cities and Health

Volym

1

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • dietary diversity
  • epidemiological transition
  • nutrition transition
  • urban food systems
  • urban health
  • Urban Uganda

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2374-8834