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… workers and guards. Some of these households will be able to secure food from their extended family networks in rural areas but many will not. Increased use of food from rural areas will require more movement and potentially spread … many residents work in high risk occupations. One example are waste recyclers and others working in waste-related industry. There are …

… nutrition to urban communities. Recognising their role in urban food security, China has invested heavily in upgrading many of its cities’ traditional food markets. Wet markets are considered part of the informal food trade … They are not served by primary healthcare facilities or regular solid waste collection. And yet these settlements often house over half of a …

… Recent reports on the links between food, energy and water have different, sometimes conflicting, messages. … —those two billion people who produce up to 80 per cent of all food consumed in a large part of the developing world – have been … energy supply. For example, a system making fuel from agricultural waste or using solar energy to power water pumps. With the appropriate …

… Dakar and Mombasa, WP1 focused on the health impacts of poor solid waste management (SWM) and related secondary hazards such as pollution, … historical determinants of dynamics in environmental health, solid waste and disaster response management, and analysed the role of local … explored resilience aspects in very poor urban contexts, such as food and water security, flooding, and conflict stress. By addressing …