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Abstract
Policies to promote demand-driven smallholder agriculture and improved
urban food marketing system performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) need to be informed
by careful food demand analysis, especially given the rapid rate of urbanization in many SSA
countries. Governments, donors, and other policymakers require an up-to-date understanding
of urban consumption patterns because these are among the main drivers of many of the
opportunities available to small-scale farmers and because such information can help identify
key leverage points to improve urban marketing system performance. It is also important to
understand better the extent of, and constraints to, urban agriculture for household
consumption as well as for cash income generation.