Edited by Jonathan Crush, University Research Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada and Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Bruce Frayne, Professor and Director, School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada and Gareth Haysom, Researcher, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Contents:1 Introduction to urban food security in the Global South 1Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne and Gareth Haysom2 Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts 23Cecilia Tacoli3 Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world 34James Tefft and Marketa Jonasova4 An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins 62Tony Weis, Marylynn Steckley and Bruce Frayne5 Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity : Trends for low-incomeand middle-income countries 79Susan Horton6 Scales of (in)action at the climate change–food security nexus in cities 94Carrie L. Mitchell, Joanne Fitzgibbons, Kristen Regier andSiya Agarwal7 The “supermarket revolution” in the South 113Reena das Nair8 Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifoodvalue chains 145Thomas Reardon9 Food systems at the rural–urban interface 166Felicity J. Proctor and Julio A. Berdegué10 The urban informal food sector in the Global South 198Graeme Young and Jonathan Crush11 The gender–urban-food interface in the Global South 218Liam Riley and Belinda Dodson12 Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries 233Piero Conforti, Giulia Ponzini and Alberto Zezza13 Urban food security and South–South migration to cities of theGlobal South 261Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera14 Food remittances and food security 282Jonathan Crush and Mary Caesar15 Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in theGlobal South 307Jodi Koberinski, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott16 Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South 328Daniel N. Warshawsky17 The planned “city region” in the New Urban Agenda : An appropriateframing for urban food security? 341Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson18 Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South 363Gareth Haysom19 Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor :Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps 380Marie T. Ruel, Jef L. Leroy, Olivier Ecker, Manuel Hernandez,Danielle Resnick and James ThurlowIndex 397

'With global rates of food insecurity surging, now more than ever we need to better understand the critical shifts impacting food systems around the world. Including essays from an impressive set of contributors, the Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South explores how and why hunger and malnutrition is on the rise in cities across the Global South. This is a must read for food security policymakers, scholars and students.'