Leif Petersen
Leif Petersen co-founded the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation in 2010. His PhD (2013) studied Cape Town’s informal economy of natural resources. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar with the National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Food Security. He has conducted township micro-enterprise spatial studies, investigations of informal economy value chains of manufacturing and food, and most recently a nationwide study of the informal grocery sector
The decline of local informal retailers in South Africa

The decline of local informal retailers in South Africa

South African small grocery businesses need to learn lessons, and so do legislators Informal retailing offood and drink accounts for some 54% of all township micro-enterprises and is a critical business activity for economically marginalised South Africans. Most...

Leif Petersen
Leif Petersen co-founded the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation in 2010. His PhD (2013) studied Cape Town’s informal economy of natural resources. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar with the National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Food Security. He has conducted township micro-enterprise spatial studies, investigations of informal economy value chains of manufacturing and food, and most recently a nationwide study of the informal grocery sector