This article arises from an interest in African urbanization and in the food, farming and nutritional transitions that some scholars present as integral to urban life. The paper investigates personal urban food environments, food sources and access strategies in two secondary Ugandan cities, Mbale and Mbarara, drawing on in-depth interviews and applying an intersectional lens. Food sources were similar across dimensions of difference but food access strategies varied. My findings indicate that socioeconomic circumstance (class) was the most salient influence shaping differences in daily food access strategies. Socioeconomic status, in turn, interacted with other identity aspects, an individual’s asset base and broader structural inequalities in influencing urban food environments. Rural land and rural connections, or multispatiality, were also important for food-secure urban lives. The work illuminates geometries of advantage and disadvantage within secondary cities, and highlights similarities and differences between food environments in these cities and Uganda’s capital, Kampala.

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乌干达二级城市的食物来源和获取策略：交叉分析

本文来自对非洲城市化以及一些学者认为是城市生活不可或缺的食物，农业和营养转变的兴趣。本文通过深入访谈并运用交叉镜头，调查了乌干达两个二级城市姆巴莱和姆巴拉拉的个人城市食物环境，食物来源和获取策略。不同来源的食物来源相似，但食物获取策略却有所不同。我的发现表明，社会经济环境（阶级）是影响每天食物获取策略差异的最显着影响。反过来，社会经济地位与其他身份方面，个人的资产基础以及影响城市食品环境的更广泛的结构不平等相互作用。农村土地和农村联系或多空间性 对粮食安全的城市生活也很重要。该作品阐明了二级城市中优缺点的几何形状，并强调了这些城市与乌干达首都坎帕拉之间的食物环境之间的异同。