The presentation promotes the integration of local food into city planning. It illustrates how city planners and local governments have no clear planning provisions for food markets/traders, which results in food insecurity and malnutrition. The Chisokone food market in urban Kitwe (Zambia) provides an example. Chisokone occupied zoned land that could be used for a mall and was relocated to make way for “development.” Anti-informality is entrenched through Master Plans and zoning schemes; conflicting practices reflect unclear mandates for local governments, with decisions about markets informed by a set of actors made powerful by historic planning frameworks (marketeers, large scale private sector, donor agencies)
