Balineau, GaelleBauer, ArthurKessler, MartinMadariaga, Nicole2020-12-102020-12-102021-01-27978-1-4648-1588-1https://hdl.handle.net/10986/34919Food for cities in Africa is changing under the triple effect of growth demography, urbanization and transformations in agricultural production and trade. These changes create risks: African cities increasingly face the challenges of undernutrition and malnutrition. But they also generate new opportunities: the food economy is the continent’s main source of employment and will remain so in the near future, both to ensure agricultural production, agro-food processing and product distribution. At the center of this economy are the intermediaries market, which link producers and consumers, and whose ineffectiveness explains that about a third of the production evaporates in food losses.CC BY 3.0 IGOAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITYAGRICULTURAL TRADEFOOD SECURITYNUTRITIONURBANIZATIONDEMOGRAPHICSAGRO-FOOD PROCESSINGEMPLOYMENTBookWorld Bank10.1596/978-1-4648-1588-1