Sub-Saharan African cities like Kampala face challenges with rapid urbanization and impacts of climate change. These challenges have exacerbated the struggle to provide adequate infrastructural and socio-ecological services to Kampala's growing poor. Based on a social practices perspective, this paper presents a study of emergent vulnerabilities at the urban Nexus of water, energy and food (WEF) in the informal settlements of Bwaise and Kanyogoga. We employ methods of observation, interviews, focus group discussions and a vision-building workshop to explore the growing vulnerabilities of poor households as they daily navigate deteriorating water quality, rising energy prices and food insecurity. Results indicate that most household-level vulnerabilities relate to energy poverty. Households scale back on water treatment practices such as boiling and the cooking of highly-nutritious yet energy-demanding foods such as beans in efforts to conserve charcoal. Emergent practices of everyday resilience-building include the use of biomass briquettes as an alternative to solid charcoal as well as social networks and capital which allow households to borrow food and energy. We suggest the notion of ‘precarious consumption’ as a tool for understanding emergent everyday vulnerabilities in relation to the urban WEF Nexus service provision and resilience policy-making in cities of the Global South.

像坎帕拉这样的撒哈拉以南非洲城市面临着快速城市化和气候变化影响的挑战。这些挑战加剧了为坎帕拉不断增长的穷人提供适当的基础设施和社会生态服务的斗争。基于社会实践的角度，本文介绍了在Bwaise和Kanyogoga非正式住区的城市水，能源和食品（WEF）枢纽中出现的脆弱性的研究。我们采用观察，访谈，焦点小组讨论和愿景建立研讨会的方法，探索贫困家庭在日益恶化的水质，日益上涨的能源价格和粮食不安全状况下日益脆弱的地位。结果表明，大多数家庭层面的脆弱性与能源贫困有关。为了节省木炭，家庭减少了水处理方法的使用，例如煮沸和烹饪高营养但需要能量的食物（例如豆类）。建立日常抗灾力的新兴实践包括使用生物质煤球替代固体木炭，以及允许家庭借用食物和能源的社交网络和资本。我们建议将“不稳定的消费”作为一种工具，以了解与城市WEF Nexus服务提供和全球南方城市的抗灾政策制定相关的日常出现的脆弱性。建立日常抗灾力的新兴实践包括使用生物质煤球替代固体木炭，以及允许家庭借用食物和能源的社交网络和资本。我们建议将“不稳定的消费”作为一种工具，以了解与城市WEF Nexus服务提供和全球南方城市的抗灾政策制定相关的日常出现的脆弱性。建立日常抗灾力的新兴实践包括使用生物质煤球替代固体木炭，以及允许家庭借用食物和能源的社交网络和资本。我们建议将“不稳定的消费”作为一种工具，以了解与城市WEF Nexus服务提供和全球南方城市的抗灾政策制定相关的日常出现的脆弱性。