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Durban’s Kitchen Gardens: What Mozambican and Zimbabwean Migrants Know About Growing Food in Concrete

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Durban’s Kitchen Gardens: Seeds of Resilience in Urban Concrete Maria tends her rooftop garden every morning before her shift at a Durban textile factory begins. The 34-year-old Mozambican migrant grows couve (kale), tomatoes, and traditional herbs in recycled paint buckets. “Back home, we always had a machamba,” she explains, using the Portuguese term for a […]

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What Role Does the Informal Food Sector Play in Meeting the Nutritional Needs of African Migrant Populations?

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Informal Food Sector and Migrant Nutrition in South Africa Opening: A Migrant Family’s Sunday Question In a low‑income township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, a Congolese migrant mother named “Aisha” stands outside a small corner shop — a spaza — holding hands with her two children. With limited income and no reliable transport, she cannot

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