On 10 October 2019, Food4Cities researcher Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx was selected by the Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, FWO) to receive a personal PhD fellowship for her research project on urban food systems in African cities. During the next 4 years, she will be mapping out the foodsheds of Kampala in her project, titled: “Spatial analysis of food systems transformations in rapidly growing African cities”.