Quanto la multiculturalità appiattisce l’offerta. Dinamiche culturali e sviluppo merceologico alimentare nei mercati della contea di Nakuru, Kenya

Based on ongoing research conducted in Nakuru County (Kenya), the paper analyses food markets in the region. It interrogates the local foodscape investigating the nexus between food supply’s commodity consistency and ethnicity. It challenges the common assumption that the creation of a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment produces an expansion of the market foodscape. It, points out, rather, in a multi-ethnic context cultural diversity leads the market to be populated by a limited array of products, while more culturally significant products are procured in other ways, such as household production and informal exchanges.