Exploring the Staple Foodscape of Dar es Salaam

Equity Focus

This study targets the changing shape and nature of the food landscape of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, it also draws out lessons for debates on city region food systems and urban food planning.

Case Summary

This project explores the city foodscape of rapidly growing Dar es Salaam with over 4.5 million inhabitants. By following some important foods for eaters in the city, a picture of the changing shape and nature of Dar es Salaam’s foodscape is drawn and lessons for debates on city region food systems and urban food planning were learned. It was found that key staple foods are coming from the rural hinterland through a food system that is not part of or modeled on the globally dominant corporate food system and as such represents a working alternative.

Lessons Learned

  • The food system of Dar es Salaam neither fits within administrative boundaries nor relies primarily on local production. More academic and policy attention needs to be given to understanding and reinforcing such middle-ground, neither local nor global, food systems that are delivering at city feeding scale.

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CASE STUDY
2021

Informal food environment is associated with household vegetable purchase patterns and dietary intake in the DECIDE study: Empirical evidence from food vendor mapping in peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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2017

Exploring the Staple Foodscape of Dar es Salaam

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